Exodus 19:18 · JPS 1917
Now mount Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Who acts: mount Sinai, LORD, smoke, whole mount, furnace · What happens: be, descend, ascend, quake, smoke · To what, where: smoke, fire
This is Exodus 19:18 · 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 (mount Sinai, LORD, smoke, whole mount), 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 | 7 smoke | advmod |
| 2 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sinai | compound |
| 3 | Sinai | Sinai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 smoke | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 smoke | cop |
| 5 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 7 smoke | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 smoke | case |
| 7 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 descended | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 descended | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 LORD | det |
| 11 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 descended | nsubj |
| 12 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 smoke | advcl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 descended | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 descended | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 ascended | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ascended | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 smoke | det |
| 20 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ascended | nsubj |
| 21 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 20 smoke | advmod |
| 22 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 smoke | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 smoke | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 smoke | det |
| 25 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ascended | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 furnace | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 furnace | det |
| 28 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 smoke | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 quaked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 quaked | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mount | det |
| 32 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 mount | amod |
| 33 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 quaked | nsubj |
| 34 | quaked | quake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 smoke | conj |
| 35 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 34 quaked | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 smoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mount Sinai | smoke | now | altogether property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | descend | past | the LORD | fire | upon smoke | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | ascend | past | the smoke | as the smoke of a furnace | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | quake | past | the whole mount | greatly property | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | smoke | a furnace | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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
וְהַ֤ר סִינַי֙ עָשַׁ֣ן כֻּלּ֔וֹ מִ֠פְּנֵי אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָרַ֥ד עָלָ֛יו יְהוָ֖ה בָּאֵ֑שׁ וַיַּ֤עַל עֲשָׁנוֹ֙ כְּעֶ֣שֶׁן הַכִּבְשָׁ֔ן וַיֶּחֱרַ֥ד כָּל־הָהָ֖ר מְאֹֽד׃
Exodus 19:18: 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:546 of Mova's parse database.
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