Exodus 23:5 · JPS 1917
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, thou shalt forbear to pass by him; thou shalt surely release it with him.
Who acts: thou, ass · What happens: see, hate, lie, forbear, pass, release · To what, where: ass, thee, burden
This is Exodus 23:5 · 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, ass), 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 see | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 forbear | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ass | det |
| 5 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ass | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hateth | nsubj |
| 9 | hateth | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ass | acl:relcl |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 hateth | obj |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hateth | xcomp |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 burden | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 burden | nmod:poss |
| 14 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lying | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 forbear | nsubj |
| 17 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 18 forbear | aux |
| 18 | forbear | forbear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pass | mark |
| 20 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forbear | xcomp |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pass | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 release | punct |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 release | nsubj |
| 25 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 27 release | aux |
| 26 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 27 release | advmod |
| 27 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forbear | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 release | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 release | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 forbear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | the ass of man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ass=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hate | present | the ass of man | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie not said to happen | gerund | the ass of man not said here | ass's burden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under burden=Location | ||||
| 4 | forbear | shall | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pass | to-infinitive | thou not said here | by man | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location | ||||
| 6 | release | shall | thou | ass | with man; surely property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source | |||
| 7 | burden | ass | nom burden «cognition 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
כִּֽי־תִרְאֶ֞ה חֲמ֣וֹר שֹׂנַאֲךָ֗ רֹבֵץ֙ תַּ֣חַת מַשָּׂא֔וֹ וְחָדַלְתָּ֖ מֵעֲזֹ֣ב ל֑וֹ עָזֹ֥ב תַּעֲזֹ֖ב עִמּֽוֹ׃ס
Exodus 23:5: 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:652 of Mova's parse database.
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