Exodus 14:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

Is not this the word that we spoke unto thee in Egypt, saying: Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?

Who acts: this, we · What happens: not be, speak, say, let, serve · To what, where: word, Egypt, us, Egyptians · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 14:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (this, we), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 word	advmod
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 word	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 spoke	obj
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 spoke	nsubj
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 word	acl:relcl
9	unto	unto	ADP	_	10 thee	case
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 spoke	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Egypt	case
12	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 spoke	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 spoke	advcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Let	punct
16	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 saying	ccomp
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Let	obj
18	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 Let	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 serve	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 serve	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 serve	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 serve	aux
23	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Let	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Egyptians	det
25	Egyptians	egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 serve	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 word	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: suggest
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	this	the word			tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	we	the word	Egypt	unto thee	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	we not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	infinitive		us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	serve	may	we	the Egyptians			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egyptian=Attribute

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

הֲלֹא־זֶ֣ה הַדָּבָ֗ר אֲשֶׁר֩ דִּבַּ֨רְנוּ אֵלֶ֤יךָ בְמִצְרַ֙יִם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר חֲדַ֥ל מִמֶּ֖נּוּ וְנַֽעַבְדָ֣ה אֶת־מִצְרָ֑יִם כִּ֣י ט֥וֹב לָ֙נוּ֙ עֲבֹ֣ד אֶת־מִצְרַ֔יִם מִמֻּתֵ֖נוּ בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

Exodus 14:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

This verse in JPS 1917:

Is not this the word that we spoke unto thee in Egypt, saying: Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?
For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:396 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.

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