Exodus 17:3 · JPS 1917
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said: 'Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?'
Who acts: people, thou · What happens: thirst, murmur, say, bring up, kill · To what, where: Moses, us, Egypt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 17:3 · 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 (people, thou), 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 | _ | 4 thirsted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thirsted | nsubj |
| 4 | thirsted | thirst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thirsted | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thirsted | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 murmured | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 murmured | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 murmured | nsubj |
| 12 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thirsted | conj |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 Moses | case |
| 14 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 murmured | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 murmured | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 20 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 brought | advmod |
| 21 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 22 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 brought | nsubj |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 brought | compound:prt |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 Egypt | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 out | fixed |
| 28 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kill | punct |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 kill | mark |
| 31 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 brought | advcl |
| 32 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 kill | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 children | cc |
| 34 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 children | nmod:poss |
| 35 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 us | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 cattle | cc |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 38 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 us | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 thirst | case |
| 40 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kill | obl |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=express, indirect=1, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thirst | past | the people | there | for water | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for water=Theme | |||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | the people | Moses | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against moses=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the people not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring up | present · perfect | thou | us | Egypt | wherefore property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | thou not said here | us | with thirst | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent we=Patient with thirst=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
וַיִּצְמָ֨א שָׁ֤ם הָעָם֙ לַמַּ֔יִם וַיָּ֥לֶן הָעָ֖ם עַל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לָ֤מָּה זֶּה֙ הֶעֱלִיתָ֣נוּ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם לְהָמִ֥ית אֹתִ֛י וְאֶת־בָּנַ֥י וְאֶת־מִקְנַ֖י בַּצָּמָֽא׃
Exodus 17:3: 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:487 of Mova's parse database.
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