Exodus 4:2 · JPS 1917
And the LORD said unto him: 'What is that in thy hand?' And he said: 'A rod.'
Who acts: LORD, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 4:2 · 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, that), 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 Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 What | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 What | punct |
| 9 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 What | cop |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 What | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 What | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 What | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 What | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 rod | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 rod | punct |
| 22 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rod | det |
| 23 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 rod | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 rod | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | thy hand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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
וַיֹּ֧אמֶר אֵלָ֛יו יְהוָ֖ה מַה־זֶּ֣הבְיָדֶ֑ךָ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר מַטֶּֽה׃
Exodus 4:2: 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:80 of Mova's parse database.
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