Exodus 18:21 · JPS 1917
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Who acts: thou, able men, men · What happens: provide, fear, hate, place, be · To what, where: able men, God, unjust gain, such, rulers
This is Exodus 18:21 · 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 (thou, able men, men), 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 4 provide | advmod |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 provide | nsubj |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 provide | aux |
| 4 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 out | fixed |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 provide | obl |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 provide | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fear | punct |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 fear | mark |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 men | acl |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fear | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 men | punct |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 men | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 truth | case |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 men | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hating | punct |
| 22 | hating | hate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 men | acl |
| 23 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gain | amod |
| 24 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hating | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 place | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 place | cc |
| 27 | place | place | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 provide | conj |
| 28 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 place | obj |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 place | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 rulers | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 rulers | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 rulers | cop |
| 34 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 place | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 thousands | case |
| 36 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rulers | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rulers | punct |
| 38 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rulers | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 hundreds | case |
| 40 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 rulers | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 rulers | punct |
| 42 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rulers | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 fifties | case |
| 44 | fifties | fifty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 rulers | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 rulers | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 rulers | cc |
| 47 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rulers | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 tens | case |
| 49 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 rulers | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 provide | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
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- changed act=suggest, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | shall | thou | able men | out all people; moreover property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition man=Theme | |||
| 2 | fear | present | able men not said here | God | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hate | gerund | men of truth not said here | unjust gain | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gain=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | place | infinitive | thou not said here | such | over man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent such=Theme over they=Destination | |||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | thou not said here | rulers and rulers of hundreds and rulers of fifties and rulers of tens | of thousands | 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
וְאַתָּ֣ה תֶחֱזֶ֣ה מִכָּל־הָ֠עָם אַנְשֵׁי־חַ֜יִל יִרְאֵ֧י אֱלֹהִ֛ים אַנְשֵׁ֥י אֱמֶ֖ת שֹׂ֣נְאֵי בָ֑צַע וְשַׂמְתָּ֣ עֲלֵהֶ֗ם שָׂרֵ֤י אֲלָפִים֙ שָׂרֵ֣י מֵא֔וֹת שָׂרֵ֥י חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים וְשָׂרֵ֥י עֲשָׂרֹֽת׃
Exodus 18:21: 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:521 of Mova's parse database.
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