Exodus 16:3 · JPS 1917

and the children of Israel said unto them: 'Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.'

Who acts: children, we, ye · What happens: say, die, sit, eat, bring, kill · To what, where: bread, us, wilderness, whole assembly · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 16:3 · 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 (children, we, ye), 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	_	6 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Israel	case
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	unto	unto	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 died	punct
11	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 died	aux
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 died	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 died	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 died	aux
15	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hand	det
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 died	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 LORD	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 LORD	det
21	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hand	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 land	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 land	det
24	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 died	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Egypt	case
26	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 land	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 sat	mark
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 died	advcl
31	by	by	ADP	_	35 pots	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pots	det
33	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pots	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 flesh	punct
35	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sat	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 eat	punct
37	when	when	SCONJ	_	40 eat	mark
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 eat	nsubj
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 eat	aux
40	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sat	advcl
41	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 eat	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 full	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 full	det
44	full	full	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 eat	obl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 brought	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	49 brought	mark
47	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	49 brought	nsubj
48	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 brought	aux
49	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
50	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 brought	obj
51	forth	forth	ADV	_	49 brought	advmod
52	into	into	ADP	_	54 wilderness	case
53	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 wilderness	det
54	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 brought	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 kill	punct
56	to	to	PART	_	57 kill	mark
57	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 brought	advcl
58	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 assembly	det
59	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 assembly	amod
60	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 kill	obj
61	with	with	ADP	_	62 hunger	case
62	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 kill	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
64	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: express
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=express

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the children of Israel			unto Moses	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	would · perfect	we			by the hand of the LORD; in the land of Egypt	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in land=Attribute
3	sit	past	we			by the flesh pots	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pot=Location
4	eat	past · do-support	we	bread		to the full	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
5	bring	present · perfect	ye	us	this wilderness	forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme into wilderness=Destination
6	kill	to-infinitive	ye not said here	this whole assembly		with hunger	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent assembly=Patient with hunger=Instrument

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

וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ אֲלֵהֶ֜ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל מִֽי־יִתֵּ֨ן מוּתֵ֤נוּ בְיַד־יְהוָה֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם בְּשִׁבְתֵּ֙נוּ֙ עַל־סִ֣יר הַבָּשָׂ֔ר בְּאָכְלֵ֥נוּ לֶ֖חֶם לָשֹׂ֑בַע כִּֽי־הוֹצֵאתֶ֤ם אֹתָ֙נוּ֙ אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה לְהָמִ֛ית אֶת־כָּל־הַקָּהָ֥ל הַזֶּ֖ה בָּרָעָֽב׃ס

Exodus 16:3: 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:448 of Mova's parse database.

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