Exodus 18:6 · JPS 1917

and he said unto Moses: 'I thy father-in-law Jethro am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.'

Who acts: Jethro, I · What happens: say, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 18:6 · 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, 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 Moses	case
5	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 coming	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 coming	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 coming	nsubj
9	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 law	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 law	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 law	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Jethro	compound
15	Jethro	Jethro	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 coming	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 coming	aux
17	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
18	unto	unto	ADP	_	19 thee	case
19	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 coming	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wife	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wife	cc
22	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thee	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sons	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sons	cc
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sons	nmod:poss
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 sons	nummod
28	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wife	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sons	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jethro					unto Moses	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present · progressive	I					unto thee	vn escape-51.1-1 «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

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֲנִ֛י חֹתֶנְךָ֥ יִתְר֖וֹ בָּ֣א אֵלֶ֑יךָ וְאִ֨שְׁתְּךָ֔ וּשְׁנֵ֥י בָנֶ֖יהָ עִמָּֽהּ׃

Exodus 18:6: 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:506 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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