Exodus 21:4 · JPS 1917
If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
Who acts: master, wife, Hebrew · What happens: give, bear, be, go out · To what, where: wife, Hebrew, sons
This is Exodus 21:4 · 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 (master, wife, Hebrew), 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 give | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 master | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wife | det |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bear | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bear | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bear | nsubj |
| 11 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bear | iobj |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bear | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 daughters | cc |
| 15 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sons | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 master | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wife | det |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 master | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 children | cc |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 children | nmod:poss |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wife | conj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 master | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 master | cop |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 master | nmod:poss |
| 25 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 master | case |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 go | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 go | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | aux |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 master | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 go | compound:prt |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 himself | case |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 go | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 master | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | Hebrew's master | a wife | Hebrew | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wife=Theme | |||
| 2 | bear | present | wife | sons or daughters | Hebrew | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary son=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | shall | the wife and wife's children | 's wife's master | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go out | shall | Hebrew | by Hebrew | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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
אִם־אֲדֹנָיו֙ יִתֶּן־ל֣וֹ אִשָּׁ֔ה וְיָלְדָה־ל֥וֹ בָנִ֖ים א֣וֹ בָנ֑וֹת הָאִשָּׁ֣ה וִילָדֶ֗יהָ תִּהְיֶה֙ לַֽאדֹנֶ֔יהָ וְה֖וּא יֵצֵ֥א בְגַפּֽוֹ׃
Exodus 21:4: 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:583 of Mova's parse database.
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