Exodus 3:1 · JPS 1917
Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.
Who acts: Moses · What happens: keep, lead, come · To what, where: flock, farthest end, mountain
This is Exodus 3:1 · 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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 keeping | advmod |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 keeping | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keeping | aux |
| 4 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flock | det |
| 6 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeping | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Jethro | case |
| 8 | Jethro | Jethro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flock | nmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Jethro | appos |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 father | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 law | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 in | punct |
| 14 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 father | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 priest | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priest | det |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Jethro | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Midian | case |
| 19 | Midian | Midian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 priest | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 led | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 led | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 led | nsubj |
| 23 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keeping | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flock | det |
| 25 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 led | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 end | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 end | det |
| 28 | farthest | farthest | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 end | amod |
| 29 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 led | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 wilderness | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wilderness | det |
| 32 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 end | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 came | cc |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 led | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 mountain | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mountain | det |
| 38 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 God | case |
| 40 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 mountain | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Horeb | punct |
| 42 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 43 Horeb | case |
| 43 | Horeb | Horeb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 came | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeping | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · progressive | Moses | the flock of Jethro | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | past | Moses | the flock | to the farthest end of the wilderness | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flock=Theme to end=Destination | |||
| 3 | come | past | Moses not said here | the mountain of God | unto Horeb | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=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
וּמֹשֶׁ֗ה הָיָ֥ה רֹעֶ֛ה אֶת־צֹ֛אן יִתְר֥וֹ חֹתְנ֖וֹ כֹּהֵ֣ן מִדְיָ֑ן וַיִּנְהַ֤ג אֶת־הַצֹּאן֙ אַחַ֣ר הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר וַיָּבֹ֛א אֶל־הַ֥ר הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים חֹרֵֽבָה׃
Exodus 3:1: 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:53 of Mova's parse database.
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