Exodus 18:17 · JPS 1917
And Moses' father-in-law said unto him: 'The thing that thou doest is not good.
Who acts: father, thou, thing · What happens: say, do, not be · To what, where: thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 18:17 · 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, thing), 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 | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 father | case |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 law | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 in | punct |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | nmod |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 good | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 doest | obj |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 doest | nsubj |
| 18 | doest | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 good | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 good | advmod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- disagree
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Moses's father in law | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present | thou | the thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | the thing | good property | tree rules |
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
וַיֹּ֛אמֶר חֹתֵ֥ן מֹשֶׁ֖ה אֵלָ֑יו לֹא־טוֹב֙ הַדָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתָּ֖ה עֹשֶֽׂה׃
Exodus 18:17: 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:517 of Mova's parse database.
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