Exodus 18:7 · JPS 1917
And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
Who acts: Moses, sons · What happens: go out, meet, bow down, kiss, ask, come · To what, where: father, law, Moses, each, tent
This is Exodus 18:7 · 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 (Moses, sons), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 meet | mark |
| 6 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meet | obj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 law | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bowed | cc |
| 15 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 bowed | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kissed | cc |
| 18 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bowed | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kissed | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 asked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 asked | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asked | nsubj |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 asked | obj |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | fixed |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 welfare | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 welfare | nmod:poss |
| 28 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asked | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 came | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 tent | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tent | det |
| 35 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Moses | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Moses not said here | Moses's father | law | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | bow down | past | Moses not said here | down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | Moses not said here | Moses | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | sons = son | each | of sons's welfare | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient | |||
| 6 | come | past | sons = son | the tent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tent=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
וַיֵּצֵ֨א מֹשֶׁ֜ה לִקְרַ֣את חֹֽתְנ֗וֹ וַיִּשְׁתַּ֙חוּ֙ וַיִּשַּׁק־ל֔וֹ וַיִּשְׁאֲל֥וּ אִישׁ־לְרֵעֵ֖הוּ לְשָׁל֑וֹם וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ הָאֹֽהֱלָה׃
Exodus 18:7: 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:507 of Mova's parse database.
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