Exodus 4:1 · JPS 1917
And Moses answered and said: 'But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say: The lord hath not appeared unto thee.'
Who acts: Moses, they, lord · What happens: answer, say, not believe, hearken, not appear · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 4:1 · 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, they, lord), 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 answered | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 believe | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 believe | punct |
| 8 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 believe | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 behold | punct |
| 10 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 15 believe | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 behold | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 believe | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 believe | advmod |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 believe | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hearken | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 hearken | cc |
| 19 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 believe | conj |
| 20 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 22 voice | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 voice | nmod:poss |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hearken | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 say | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 say | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | aux |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 believe | advcl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 appeared | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lord | det |
| 30 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 appeared | nsubj |
| 31 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 appeared | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 appeared | advmod |
| 33 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 say | ccomp |
| 34 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 35 thee | case |
| 35 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 appeared | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- disagree
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Moses | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Moses not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not believe | future | they | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hearken | infinitive | they not said here | unto my voice | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | future | they | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not appear | present · perfect | the lord | unto thee | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
וַיַּ֤עַן מֹשֶׁה֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר וְהֵן֙ לֹֽא־יַאֲמִ֣ינוּ לִ֔י וְלֹ֥א יִשְׁמְע֖וּ בְּקֹלִ֑י כִּ֣י יֹֽאמְר֔וּ לֹֽא־נִרְאָ֥ה אֵלֶ֖יךָ יְהוָֽה׃
Exodus 4:1: 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:79 of Mova's parse database.
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