Exodus 17:9 · JPS 1917
And Moses said unto Joshua: 'Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.'
Who acts: Moses, I · What happens: say, choose out, go out, fight, stand · To what, where: men, us, top · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 17:9 · 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 (Moses, I), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 Joshua | case |
| 5 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Choose | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Choose | punct |
| 8 | Choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Choose | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 Choose | compound:prt |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Choose | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 Choose | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fight | punct |
| 17 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 Choose | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Amalek | case |
| 19 | Amalek | Amalek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fight | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 stand | punct |
| 21 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stand | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 stand | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 stand | aux |
| 24 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Choose | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stand | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hill | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hill | det |
| 30 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | nmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 rod | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rod | det |
| 33 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stand | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 God | case |
| 35 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 rod | nmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hand | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hand | nmod:poss |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rod | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Moses | unto Joshua | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | choose out | infinitive | men | us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | infinitive | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fight | infinitive | with Amalek | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with amalek=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | stand | future | I | the top of the hill | tomorrow | with the rod of God in my hand | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location |
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 מֹשֶׁ֤ה אֶל־יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙ בְּחַר־לָ֣נוּ אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְצֵ֖א הִלָּחֵ֣ם בַּעֲמָלֵ֑ק מָחָ֗ר אָנֹכִ֤י נִצָּב֙ עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ הַגִּבְעָ֔ה וּמַטֵּ֥ה הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּיָדִֽי׃
Exodus 17:9: 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:493 of Mova's parse database.
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