Exodus 4:3 · JPS 1917

And He said: 'Cast it on the ground.' And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

Who acts: lord, hand, Moses · What happens: say, cast, become, flee · To what, where: hand, ground, serpent · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 4:3 · 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, hand, Moses), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Cast	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Cast	punct
6	Cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Cast	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Cast	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Cast	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Cast	punct
13	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 cast	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cast	nsubj
15	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cast	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cast	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 became	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cast	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 serpent	det
25	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 fled	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fled	cc
28	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 fled	nsubj
29	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
30	from	from	ADV	_	29 fled	advmod
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 from	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	lord				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cast	infinitive		hand	the ground		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination
3	cast	past	lord	hand	the ground		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination
4	become	past	hand	a serpent			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	flee	past	Moses			from property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הַשְׁלִיכֵ֣הוּ אַ֔רְצָה וַיַּשְׁלִיכֵ֥הוּ אַ֖רְצָה וַיְהִ֣י לְנָחָ֑שׁ וַיָּ֥נָס מֹשֶׁ֖ה מִפָּנָֽיו׃

Exodus 4:3: 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:81 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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