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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

ccmarknsubjadvclcaseoblpunctnsubjauxadvmodcasedetoblcasenmodpunctmarknsubjcopadvclpunctrootAndCCONJwhenSCONJtheyPRONcameVERBtoADPMarahPROPN,PUNCTtheyPRONcouldAUXnotPARTdrinkVERBofADPtheDETwatersNOUNofADPMarahPROPN,PUNCTforSCONJtheyPRONwereAUXbitterADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_11 drinkcc
2whenwhenSCONJ_4 camemark
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 camensubj
4camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 drinkadvcl
5totoADP_6 Marahcase
6MarahMarahPROPNNumber=Sing4 cameobl
7,,PUNCT_11 drinkpunct
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 drinknsubj
9couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin11 drinkaux
10notnotPARTPolarity=Neg11 drinkadvmod
11drinkdrinkVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
12ofofADP_14 waterscase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 watersdet
14waterswaterNOUNNumber=Plur11 drinkobl
15ofofADP_16 Marahcase
16MarahMarahPROPNNumber=Sing14 watersnmod
17,,PUNCT_21 bitterpunct
18forforSCONJ_21 bittermark
19theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 bitternsubj
20werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 bittercop
21bitterbitterADJDegree=Pos11 drinkadvcl
22..PUNCT_11 drinkpunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
narrate
voice
narrator
polarity
neg
teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastMosesMarahvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to marah=Initial_Location
2not drinkcouldMosesof the waters of Marahvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=Source
3ispastMosesbitter propertytree 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:

  1. And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter.
  2. 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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