Exodus 18:19 · JPS 1917
Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee: be thou for the people before God, and bring thou the causes unto God.
Who acts: you, I, God, thou · What happens: hearken, give, be, bring · To what, where: counsel, thee, causes
This is Exodus 18:19 · 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 (you, I, God, thou), 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 | Hearken | hearken | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Hearken | advmod |
| 3 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 voice | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 voice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hearken | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hearken | parataxis |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thee | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thee | cc |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 thee | nsubj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thee | cop |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 thee | case |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 give | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 people | punct |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 people | cop |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 people | nsubj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hearken | parataxis |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 God | case |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 people | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bring | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bring | cc |
| 28 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hearken | conj |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 bring | nsubj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 causes | det |
| 31 | causes | cause | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bring | obj |
| 32 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 33 God | case |
| 33 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 bring | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearken | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hearken | imperative | you not said here | now | unto my voice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | future | I | counsel | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient counsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | infinitive | God | with thee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | thou | before God | for the people | tree rules | |||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | thou | the causes | unto God | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cause=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
עַתָּ֞ה שְׁמַ֤ע בְּקֹלִי֙ אִיעָ֣צְךָ֔ וִיהִ֥י אֱלֹהִ֖ים עִמָּ֑ךְ הֱיֵ֧ה אַתָּ֣ה לָעָ֗ם מ֚וּל הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים וְהֵבֵאתָ֥ אַתָּ֛ה אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים אֶל־הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃
Exodus 18:19: 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:519 of Mova's parse database.
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