Exodus 15:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter.
Who acts: Moses · What happens: come, not drink, be · To what, where: Marah
This is Exodus 15:23 · 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 (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 | _ | 11 drink | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drink | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Marah | case |
| 6 | Marah | Marah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drink | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drink | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 drink | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 drink | advmod |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 waters | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waters | det |
| 14 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drink | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Marah | case |
| 16 | Marah | Marah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 waters | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bitter | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 bitter | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bitter | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bitter | cop |
| 21 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drink | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Moses | Marah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to marah=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not drink | could | Moses | of the waters of Marah | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Moses | bitter property | tree rules |
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
וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ מָרָ֔תָה וְלֹ֣א יָֽכְל֗וּ לִשְׁתֹּ֥ת מַ֙יִם֙ מִמָּרָ֔ה כִּ֥י מָרִ֖ים הֵ֑ם עַל־כֵּ֥ן קָרָֽא־שְׁמָ֖הּ מָרָֽה׃
Exodus 15:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter.
- Therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:439 of Mova's parse database.
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