Exodus 17:5 · JPS 1917
And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go.
Who acts: LORD, thou, rod · What happens: say, pass on, take, smite, take in, go · To what, where: river, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 17:5 · 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 (LORD, thou, rod), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 Moses | case |
| 6 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Pass | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Pass | punct |
| 9 | Pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Pass | compound:prt |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Pass | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Pass | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 thee | case |
| 18 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 take | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 elders | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 elders | det |
| 21 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 take | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Israel | case |
| 23 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 elders | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 take | cc |
| 26 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 rod | nmod:poss |
| 27 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 smotest | punct |
| 29 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 smotest | obl |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 smotest | nsubj |
| 31 | smotest | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 rod | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 river | det |
| 33 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 smotest | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 smotest | punct |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 Pass | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 take | compound:prt |
| 37 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 hand | nmod:poss |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 go | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 go | cc |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 take | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pass on | infinitive | before the people | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | with thee; of the elders of Israel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of elder=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | smite | past | thou | the river | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus river=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | take in | infinitive | thy rod | thy hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | thy rod not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֗ה עֲבֹר֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הָעָ֔ם וְקַ֥ח אִתְּךָ֖ מִזִּקְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וּמַטְּךָ֗ אֲשֶׁ֨ר הִכִּ֤יתָ בּוֹ֙ אֶת־הַיְאֹ֔ר קַ֥ח בְּיָדְךָ֖ וְהָלָֽכְתָּ׃
Exodus 17:5: 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:489 of Mova's parse database.
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