Exodus 18:1 · JPS 1917
Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel His people, how that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Who acts: Jethro, God, LORD · What happens: hear, do, bring · To what, where: Israel, Egypt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 18:1 · 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 (Jethro, God, LORD), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Jethro | Jethro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 priest | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 priest | det |
| 5 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jethro | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Midian | case |
| 7 | Midian | Midian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 priest | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 father | punct |
| 9 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 Moses | case |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jethro | appos |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 law | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 law | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 law | punct |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jethro | punct |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 heard | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 done | obj |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 all | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Moses | case |
| 25 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 done | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Israel | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Israel | cc |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Israel | case |
| 29 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Moses | conj |
| 30 | His | he | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 people | nmod:poss |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 Israel | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 brought | punct |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 brought | advmod |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 brought | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 LORD | det |
| 36 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 brought | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 brought | aux |
| 38 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 heard | ccomp |
| 39 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 brought | obj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 Egypt | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 out | fixed |
| 42 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 brought | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Jethro | now | of all | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | God | for Moses and Israel | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect | the LORD | Israel | Egypt | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent israel=Theme out egypt=Initial_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
וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע יִתְר֨וֹ כֹהֵ֤ן מִדְיָן֙ חֹתֵ֣ן מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֵת֩ כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ לְמֹשֶׁ֔ה וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עַמּ֑וֹ כִּֽי־הוֹצִ֧יא יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃
Exodus 18:1: 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:501 of Mova's parse database.
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