Exodus 23:4 · JPS 1917
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Who acts: thou, ox · What happens: meet, go, bring back · To what, where: ox, ass, man
This is Exodus 23:4 · 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 (thou, ox), 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 | _ | 3 meet | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 meet | nsubj |
| 3 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bring | advcl |
| 4 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ox | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 enemy | case |
| 7 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meet | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 ass | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ass | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ox | conj |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ox | acl |
| 12 | astray | astray | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meet | punct |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 bring | nsubj |
| 15 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 17 bring | aux |
| 16 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 17 bring | advmod |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 bring | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obl |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 bring | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | thine enemy's ox or man's ass | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | thine enemy's ox or man's ass not said here | astray property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring back | shall | thou | ass | man | again | surely property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination |
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
כִּ֣י תִפְגַּ֞ע שׁ֧וֹר אֹֽיִבְךָ֛ א֥וֹ חֲמֹר֖וֹ תֹּעֶ֑ה הָשֵׁ֥ב תְּשִׁיבֶ֖נּוּ לֽוֹ׃ס
Exodus 23:4: 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:651 of Mova's parse database.
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