Exodus 17:2 · JPS 1917

Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said: 'Give us water that we may drink.' And Moses said unto them: 'Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye try the LORD?'

Who acts: people, we, Moses, ye · What happens: strive, say, give, drink, try · To what, where: water, us, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 17:2 · 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 (people, we, Moses, 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	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	4 strove	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 strove	nsubj
4	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Moses	case
6	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 strove	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strove	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Give	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 Give	punct
12	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Give	iobj
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Give	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 drink	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 drink	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 drink	aux
18	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Give	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Give	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 Give	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
22	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strove	conj
24	unto	unto	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 strive	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 strive	punct
28	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 strive	advmod
29	strive	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
30	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 strive	nsubj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 strive	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 strive	punct
34	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	37 try	advmod
35	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 try	aux
36	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 try	nsubj
37	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 strive	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 LORD	det
39	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 try	obj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 strive	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 strive	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	strive	past	the people			with Moses; wherefore property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the people not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	infinitive		water	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient water=Theme
4	drink	may	we				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	Moses			unto people	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	strive	infinitive	ye			with me	tree rules
7	try	present · do-support	ye	the LORD		wherefore property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Eventuality

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

וַיָּ֤רֶב הָעָם֙ עִם־מֹשֶׁ֔ה וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ תְּנוּ־לָ֥נוּ מַ֖יִם וְנִשְׁתֶּ֑ה וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ מֹשֶׁ֔ה מַה־תְּרִיבוּן֙ עִמָּדִ֔י מַה־תְּנַסּ֖וּן אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

Exodus 17:2: 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:486 of Mova's parse database.

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