Exodus 17:7 · JPS 1917
And the name of the place was called Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the LORD, saying: 'Is the LORD among us, or not?'
Who acts: people, children · What happens: call, try, say, be, name, strive · To what, where: name, LORD, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 17:7 · 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, children), 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 | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | Massah | Massah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Meribah | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Meribah | cc |
| 12 | Meribah | Meribah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Massah | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 striving | punct |
| 14 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 striving | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 because | fixed |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 striving | det |
| 17 | striving | striving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 children | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 children | det |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 striving | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Israel | case |
| 22 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 children | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tried | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tried | cc |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 tried | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tried | nsubj |
| 27 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 LORD | det |
| 29 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 tried | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saying | punct |
| 31 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 tried | advcl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 LORD | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 LORD | punct |
| 34 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 LORD | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 LORD | det |
| 36 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 saying | ccomp |
| 37 | among | among | ADP | _ | 38 us | case |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 LORD | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 not | punct |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 not | cc |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 LORD | conj |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 LORD | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 LORD | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the name of the place | because the striving of the children of Israel | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | try | past | people | the LORD | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | people not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the LORD | among us | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | the place | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | strive | the children of Israel | nom striving «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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
וַיִּקְרָא֙ שֵׁ֣ם הַמָּק֔וֹם מַסָּ֖ה וּמְרִיבָ֑ה עַל־רִ֣יב ׀ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְעַ֨ל נַסֹּתָ֤ם אֶת־יְהוָה֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הֲיֵ֧שׁ יְהוָ֛ה בְּקִרְבֵּ֖נוּ אִם־אָֽיִן׃פ
Exodus 17:7: 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:491 of Mova's parse database.
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