Exodus 2:16 · JPS 1917

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

Who acts: priest, maidens · What happens: have, come, draw, fill, water · To what, where: seven daughters, water, troughs, flock

This is Exodus 2:16 · 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 (priest, maidens), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Midian	case
5	Midian	Midian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 priest	nmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 daughters	nummod
8	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drew	cc
14	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drew	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 filled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 filled	cc
18	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 troughs	det
20	troughs	trough	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 filled	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 water	mark
22	water	water	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 filled	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flock	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 father	case
26	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 water	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	the priest of Midian	seven daughters	now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	come	past	maidens = maiden			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw	past	maidens = maiden not said here	water		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	fill	past	maidens = maiden not said here	the troughs		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent trough=Patient
5	water	to-infinitive	maidens = maiden not said here	maidens's father's flock		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent flock=Destination

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

וּלְכֹהֵ֥ן מִדְיָ֖ן שֶׁ֣בַע בָּנ֑וֹת וַתָּבֹ֣אנָה וַתִּדְלֶ֗נָה וַתְּמַלֶּ֙אנָה֙ אֶת־הָ֣רְהָטִ֔ים לְהַשְׁק֖וֹת צֹ֥אן אֲבִיהֶֽן׃

Exodus 2:16: 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:42 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.42/