Exodus 17:12 · JPS 1917

But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Who acts: hands, men, Moses, Aaron, sun. · What happens: be, take, put, sit, stay up, go · To what, where: stone, hand, hands

This is Exodus 17:12 · 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 (hands, men, Moses, Aaron), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 heavy	cc
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hands	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 Moses	case
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heavy	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	under	under	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sat	nsubj
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
23	thereon	thereon	ADV	_	22 sat	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 stayed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stayed	cc
26	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 stayed	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Hur	cc
28	Hur	Hur	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Aaron	conj
29	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 stayed	compound:prt
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hands	nmod:poss
32	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stayed	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 one	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hands	appos
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 side	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 side	det
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 side	nummod
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 one	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 other	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 other	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 other	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 one	conj
44	on	on	ADP	_	47 side	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 side	det
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 side	amod
47	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 other	nmod
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 steady	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 steady	cc
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 hands	nmod:poss
51	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 steady	nsubj
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 steady	cop
53	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heavy	conj
54	until	until	ADP	_	56 going	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 going	det
56	going	going	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 steady	obl
57	down	down	ADV	_	56 going	advmod
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 sun.	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 sun.	det
60	sun.	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 going	nmod

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Moses's hands			heavy property	tree rules
2	take	past	men = man	a stone			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	put	past	men = man not said here	hand		under Moses	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under he=Destination
4	sit	past	Moses			thereon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stay up	past	Aaron and Hur	Moses's hands			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hand=Location
6	is	past	Moses's hands		until the going of the sun.	steady property	tree rules
7	go		the sun.				nom going «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

וִידֵ֤י מֹשֶׁה֙ כְּבֵדִ֔ים וַיִּקְחוּ־אֶ֛בֶן וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ תַחְתָּ֖יו וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב עָלֶ֑יהָ וְאַהֲרֹ֨ן וְח֜וּר תָּֽמְכ֣וּ בְיָדָ֗יו מִזֶּ֤ה אֶחָד֙ וּמִזֶּ֣ה אֶחָ֔ד וַיְהִ֥י יָדָ֛יו אֱמוּנָ֖ה עַד־בֹּ֥א הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

Exodus 17:12: 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:496 of Mova's parse database.

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