Exodus 14:11 · JPS 1917

And they said unto Moses: 'Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

Who acts: children, graves, thou · What happens: say, be, take away, die, deal, bring · To what, where: us, Egypt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 14:11 · 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 (children, graves, thou), 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 said	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 Moses	case
5	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 taken	punct
8	Because	because	SCONJ	_	10 were	mark
9	there	there	PRON	Case=Nom PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 graves	det
12	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 were	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Egypt	case
14	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 graves	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 were	punct
16	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 taken	nsubj
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 taken	obj
20	away	away	ADV	_	18 taken	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 die	mark
22	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 taken	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 wilderness	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wilderness	det
25	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 die	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
27	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	30 dealt	advmod
28	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 dealt	aux
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 dealt	nsubj
30	dealt	deal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	conj
31	thus	thus	ADV	_	30 dealt	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 us	case
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 dealt	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dealt	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 bring	mark
36	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 dealt	advcl
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 bring	obj
38	forth	forth	ADV	_	36 bring	advmod
39	out	out	ADP	_	41 Egypt	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Egypt	case
41	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 bring	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=ask, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	children = child			unto Moses	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past	no graves in Egypt		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take away	present · perfect	thou	us		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	die	to-infinitive	thou not said here			in the wilderness	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wilderness=Attribute
5	deal	present · perfect	thou			with us; thus, wherefore property	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with we=Theme
6	bring	to-infinitive	thou not said here	us	Egypt	forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent we=Theme out egypt=Initial_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

וַיֹּאמְרוּ֮ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה֒ הַֽמִבְּלִ֤י אֵין־קְבָרִים֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם לְקַחְתָּ֖נוּ לָמ֣וּת בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר מַה־זֹּאת֙ עָשִׂ֣יתָ לָּ֔נוּ לְהוֹצִיאָ֖נוּ מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

Exodus 14:11: 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:395 of Mova's parse database.

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