Exodus 3:7 · JPS 1917
And the LORD said: 'I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their pains;
Who acts: LORD, I, people, taskmasters · What happens: say, see, be, hear, know, afflict · To what, where: affliction, Egypt, cry, pains, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 3:7 · 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 (LORD, I, people, taskmasters), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 9 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 10 seen | advmod |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 affliction | det |
| 12 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 14 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 people | nmod:poss |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 affliction | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 Egypt | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Egypt | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Egypt | case |
| 19 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 people | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 heard | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 heard | cc |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 heard | aux |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 seen | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cry | nmod:poss |
| 25 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 reason | case |
| 27 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 taskmasters | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 taskmasters | nmod:poss |
| 30 | taskmasters | taskmaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 reason | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 know | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 know | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 know | nsubj |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | advcl |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 pains | nmod:poss |
| 36 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 know | obj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | I | the affliction of My people | surely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer affliction=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | present | My people | Egypt | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | present · perfect | I not said here | people's cry | by reason of people's taskmasters | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | know | present | I | taskmasters's pains | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | afflict | My people | nom affliction «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | cry | people | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | pain | taskmasters = taskmaster | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה רָאֹ֥ה רָאִ֛יתִי אֶת־עֳנִ֥י עַמִּ֖י אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם וְאֶת־צַעֲקָתָ֤ם שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י נֹֽגְשָׂ֔יו כִּ֥י יָדַ֖עְתִּי אֶת־מַכְאֹבָֽיו׃
Exodus 3:7: 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:59 of Mova's parse database.
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