Exodus 2:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.'
Who acts: ye, you, man · What happens: be, call, eat · To what, where: flock, man, bread · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 2:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (ye, you, man), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 left | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | expl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 left | mark |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 left | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 call | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 call | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eat | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 eat | aux |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 call | advcl |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | ye | flock | leave property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | may | man | bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
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
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֶל־בְּנֹתָ֖יו וְאַיּ֑וֹ לָ֤מָּה זֶּה֙ עֲזַבְתֶּ֣ן אֶת־הָאִ֔ישׁ קִרְאֶ֥ן ל֖וֹ וְיֹ֥אכַל לָֽחֶם׃
Exodus 2:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And he said unto his daughters: 'And where is he?
- Why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:47 of Mova's parse database.
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