Exodus 18:15 · JPS 1917

And Moses said unto his father-in-law: 'Because the people come unto me to inquire of God;

Who acts: Moses, people · What happens: say, come, inquire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 18:15 · 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, 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	_	3 said	cc
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 law	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 law	punct
10	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	compound
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
13	Because	because	SCONJ	_	16 come	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
17	unto	unto	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 inquire	mark
20	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 God	case
22	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 inquire	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Moses	unto Moses's father	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	the people	unto me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	the people not said here	of God	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of god=Recipient

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

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֖ה לְחֹתְנ֑וֹ כִּֽי־יָבֹ֥א אֵלַ֛י הָעָ֖ם לִדְרֹ֥שׁ אֱלֹהִֽים׃

Exodus 18:15: 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:515 of Mova's parse database.

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