Exodus 19:23 · JPS 1917
And Moses said unto the LORD: 'The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou didst charge us, saying: Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.'
Who acts: Moses, people, thou · What happens: say, not come up, charge, set, sanctify · To what, where: mount Sinai, us, bounds, mount · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 19:23 · 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 (Moses, people, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 LORD | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 LORD | det |
| 6 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 come | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 come | advmod |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 come | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Sinai | case |
| 16 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Sinai | compound |
| 17 | Sinai | Sinai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 charge | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 charge | mark |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 charge | nsubj |
| 21 | didst | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 charge | aux |
| 22 | charge | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | advcl |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 charge | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saying | punct |
| 25 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 charge | advcl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Set | punct |
| 27 | Set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 saying | ccomp |
| 28 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Set | obj |
| 29 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 mount | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mount | det |
| 31 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Set | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sanctify | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sanctify | cc |
| 34 | sanctify | sanctify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 Set | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sanctify | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Moses | unto the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not come up | can | the people | mount Sinai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sinai=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | charge | past · do-support | thou | us | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location we=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | thou not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | set | infinitive | bounds | about the mount | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bound=Theme about mount=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sanctify | infinitive | mount | 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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה לֹא־יוּכַ֣ל הָעָ֔ם לַעֲלֹ֖ת אֶל־הַ֣ר סִינָ֑י כִּֽי־אַתָּ֞ה הַעֵדֹ֤תָה בָּ֙נוּ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הַגְבֵּ֥ל אֶת־הָהָ֖ר וְקִדַּשְׁתּֽוֹ׃
Exodus 19:23: 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:551 of Mova's parse database.
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