Exodus 13:21 · JPS 1917

And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; that they might go by day and by night:

Who acts: LORD, children · What happens: go, lead, give · To what, where: pillar, children, light

This is Exodus 13:21 · 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 (LORD, children), 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	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 LORD	det
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pillar	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pillar	det
11	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 cloud	case
13	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pillar	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lead	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lead	mark
16	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lead	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lead	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 night	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 night	cc
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 pillar	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pillar	det
26	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 night	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 fire	case
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pillar	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 give	mark
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lead	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 go	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 go	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 go	aux
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	advcl
39	by	by	ADP	_	40 day	case
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 night	cc
42	by	by	ADP	_	43 night	case
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 day	conj
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed hedge=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the LORD			a pillar of cloud	before children = child; day; night	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before they=Location
2	lead	to-infinitive	the LORD not said here	children = child				tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	the LORD not said here	light	children = child			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient light=Theme
4	go	might	children = child				day	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וַֽיהוָ֡ה הֹלֵךְ֩ לִפְנֵיהֶ֨ם יוֹמָ֜ם בְּעַמּ֤וּד עָנָן֙ לַנְחֹתָ֣ם הַדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְלַ֛יְלָה בְּעַמּ֥וּד אֵ֖שׁ לְהָאִ֣יר לָהֶ֑ם לָלֶ֖כֶת יוֹמָ֥ם וָלָֽיְלָה׃

Exodus 13:21: 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:383 of Mova's parse database.

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