Exodus 2:12 · JPS 1917

And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

Who acts: Moses · What happens: look, see, be, smite, hide · To what, where: way, man, Egyptian, Moses, sand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 2:12 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 looked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl:unmarked
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 way	cc
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smote	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 smote	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 saw	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 smote	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 was	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 man	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 man	cop
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smote	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 smote	nsubj
21	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Egyptian	det
23	Egyptian	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 smote	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hid	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hid	cc
26	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 smote	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hid	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 sand	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sand	det
30	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hid	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look	past	Moses	this way and that way		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	Moses			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past		no man	there	tree rules
4	smite	past	Moses	the Egyptian		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus egyptian=Experiencer
5	hide	past	Moses not said here	Moses	the sand	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in sand=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

וַיִּ֤פֶן כֹּה֙ וָכֹ֔ה וַיַּ֖רְא כִּ֣י אֵ֣ין אִ֑ישׁ וַיַּךְ֙ אֶת־הַמִּצְרִ֔י וַֽיִּטְמְנֵ֖הוּ בַּחֽוֹל׃

Exodus 2:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:37 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.37/