Exodus 4:4 · JPS 1917

And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail — and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand —

Who acts: LORD, hand · What happens: say, put, take, lay, become, hold · To what, where: hand, hold, rod · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 4:4 · 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 (LORD, hand), 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 Moses	case
6	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Put	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 Put	punct
9	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
10	forth	forth	ADV	_	9 Put	advmod
11	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 hand	nmod:poss
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Put	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 take	cc
15	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 Put	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 tail	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tail	det
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 put	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 laid	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 laid	cc
29	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 put	conj
30	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laid	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hold	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 became	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 became	cc
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 became	nsubj
36	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 put	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 rod	det
38	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 became	xcomp
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 hand	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hand	nmod:poss
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 became	obl
42	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the LORD		unto Moses	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put	infinitive		thy hand	forth property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
3	take	infinitive		hand	by the tail	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	put	past	lord	lord's hand	forth property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
5	lay	past	lord not said here	hold of hand		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
6	become	past	hand	a rod	in lord's hand result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hand=Result
7	hold			hand		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה שְׁלַח֙ יָֽדְךָ֔ וֶאֱחֹ֖ז בִּזְנָב֑וֹ וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח יָדוֹ֙ וַיַּ֣חֲזֶק בּ֔וֹ וַיְהִ֥י לְמַטֶּ֖ה בְּכַפּֽוֹ׃

Exodus 4:4: 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:82 of Mova's parse database.

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