Exodus 18:14 · JPS 1917

And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said: 'What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even?'

Who acts: father, thou, people · What happens: see, do, say, be, sit, stand · To what, where: all, thing, thyself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 18:14 · 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 (father, thou, people), 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	_	20 said	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 saw	mark
3	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 Moses	case
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 law	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 law	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 law	punct
9	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	advcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 saw	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 did	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 all	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 people	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 did	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 thing	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 thing	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 thing	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 thing	cop
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 thing	det
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 doest	obj
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 doest	nsubj
29	doest	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 thing	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 people	det
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 doest	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 thing	punct
34	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	35 sittest	advmod
35	sittest	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
36	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 sittest	nsubj
37	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	35 sittest	obj
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	35 sittest	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 stand	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 stand	cc
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 people	det:predet
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 people	det
43	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 stand	nsubj
44	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sittest	conj
45	about	about	ADP	_	46 thee	case
46	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 stand	obl
47	from	from	ADP	_	48 morning	case
48	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stand	obl
49	unto	unto	ADP	_	50 even	case
50	even	even	NOUN	_	44 stand	obl
51	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: narrator
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Moses's father in law	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus
2	do	past	father			to the people	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a	present		this thing			tree rules
5	do	present	thou	this thing		to the people	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
6	sit	present	thou	thyself		alone property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thyself=Theme
7	stand	present	all people		morning	about thee; unto even	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about thou=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

וַיַּרְא֙ חֹתֵ֣ן מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־ה֥וּא עֹשֶׂ֖ה לָעָ֑ם וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מָֽה־הַדָּבָ֤ר הַזֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ר אַתָּ֤ה עֹשֶׂה֙ לָעָ֔ם מַדּ֗וּעַ אַתָּ֤ה יוֹשֵׁב֙ לְבַדֶּ֔ךָ וְכָל־הָעָ֛ם נִצָּ֥ב עָלֶ֖יךָ מִן־בֹּ֥קֶר עַד־עָֽרֶב׃

Exodus 18:14: 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:514 of Mova's parse database.

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