Exodus 14:21 · JPS 1917
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Who acts: Moses, LORD, sea · What happens: stretch out, cause, go back, make, divide · To what, where: hand, sea, waters
This is Exodus 14:21 · 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 (Moses, LORD, sea), 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 stretched | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 caused | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 caused | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 LORD | det |
| 13 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 caused | nsubj |
| 14 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caused | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 caused | xcomp |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 wind | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wind | det |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wind | amod |
| 23 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wind | compound |
| 24 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 night | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 made | cc |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 caused | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sea | det |
| 32 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obj |
| 33 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 land | amod |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 divided | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 divided | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 waters | det |
| 38 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 divided | aux:pass |
| 40 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stretched | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | Moses | Moses's hand | the sea | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | cause | past | the LORD | the sea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go back | to-infinitive | the sea not said here | night | by a strong east wind | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | make | past | the LORD not said here | the sea | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sea=Product | ||||
| 5 | divide | past · passive | the waters | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
וַיֵּ֨ט מֹשֶׁ֣ה אֶת־יָדוֹ֮ עַל־הַיָּם֒ וַיּ֣וֹלֶךְ יְהוָ֣ה ׀ אֶת־הַ֠יָּם בְּר֨וּחַ קָדִ֤ים עַזָּה֙ כָּל־הַלַּ֔יְלָה וַיָּ֥שֶׂם אֶת־הַיָּ֖ם לֶחָרָבָ֑ה וַיִּבָּקְע֖וּ הַמָּֽיִם׃
Exodus 14:21: 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:406 of Mova's parse database.
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