Exodus 18:23 · JPS 1917
If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.'
Who acts: thou, God, people · What happens: do, command, be, endure, go · To what, where: thing, thee, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 18:23 · 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, God, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thing | det |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 command | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 command | cc |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 command | nsubj |
| 10 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | conj |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 command | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 command | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 able | advmod |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 able | nsubj |
| 16 | shalt | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 able | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | cop |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 endure | mark |
| 20 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 people | det:predet |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 go | nsubj |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 place | nmod:poss |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 peace | case |
| 33 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 able | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 able | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | shall | thou | this thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | command | infinitive | God | thee | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | thou | then | able property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | endure | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | shall | all people | peace | to people's place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_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
אִ֣ם אֶת־הַדָּבָ֤ר הַזֶּה֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה וְצִוְּךָ֣ אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְיָֽכָלְתָּ֖ עֲמֹ֑ד וְגַם֙ כָּל־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה עַל־מְקֹמ֖וֹ יָבֹ֥א בְשָׁלֽוֹם׃
Exodus 18:23: 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:523 of Mova's parse database.
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