Exodus 3:11 · JPS 1917

And Moses said unto God: 'Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?'

Who acts: Moses, I · What happens: say, be, go, bring · To what, where: children, Egypt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 3:11 · 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, I), 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	_	5 God	case
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Who	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Who	punct
8	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	3 said	ccomp
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Who	cop
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Who	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 go	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Who	advcl
16	unto	unto	ADP	_	17 Pharaoh	case
17	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bring	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bring	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 bring	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 bring	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bring	aux
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 bring	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 children	det
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bring	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Israel	case
28	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 children	nmod
29	out	out	ADP	_	31 Egypt	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Egypt	case
31	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Moses			unto God	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	I				tree rules
3	go	should	I			unto Pharaoh	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bring	should	I	the children of Israel	Egypt	forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent child=Theme out egypt=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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל־הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים מִ֣י אָנֹ֔כִי כִּ֥י אֵלֵ֖ךְ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֑ה וְכִ֥י אוֹצִ֛יא אֶת־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

Exodus 3:11: 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:63 of Mova's parse database.

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