Exodus 2:17 · JPS 1917

And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Who acts: shepherds, Moses · What happens: come, drive away, stand up, help, water · To what, where: shepherds, flock

This is Exodus 2:17 · 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 (shepherds, Moses), 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 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherds	det
3	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drove	cc
6	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drove	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 drove	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 stood	cc
11	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stood	nsubj
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 stood	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 helped	cc
15	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stood	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 helped	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 watered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 watered	cc
19	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stood	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 flock	nmod:poss
21	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watered	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the shepherds			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drive away	past	the shepherds not said here	shepherds = shepherd	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
3	stand up	past	Moses			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	help	past	Moses not said here	shepherds = shepherd		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
5	water	past	Moses not said here	shepherds'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

וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ הָרֹעִ֖ים וַיְגָרְשׁ֑וּם וַיָּ֤קָם מֹשֶׁה֙ וַיּ֣וֹשִׁעָ֔ן וַיַּ֖שְׁקְ אֶת־צֹאנָֽם׃

Exodus 2:17: 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:43 of Mova's parse database.

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