Exodus 4:11 · JPS 1917
And the LORD said unto him: 'Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I the LORD?
Who acts: LORD, mouth · What happens: say, make, see, not be · To what, where: mouth, man, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 4:11 · 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, mouth), 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 | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 maketh | cc |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 maketh | nsubj |
| 18 | maketh | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 maketh | obj |
| 21 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 maketh | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 deaf | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 deaf | cc |
| 24 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dumb | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seeing | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 seeing | cc |
| 27 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 dumb | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 blind | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 blind | cc |
| 30 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dumb | conj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 LORD | cop |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 LORD | nsubj |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 LORD | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 it | appos |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 LORD | det |
| 37 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | parataxis |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 37 LORD | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | unto man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | present · perfect | man's mouth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Product | |||||
| 3 | make | present | a man | dumb property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Product | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not is a | present | mouth | the LORD | tree rules |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלָ֗יו מִ֣י שָׂ֣ם פֶּה֮ לָֽאָדָם֒ א֚וֹ מִֽי־יָשׂ֣וּם אִלֵּ֔ם א֣וֹ חֵרֵ֔שׁ א֥וֹ פִקֵּ֖חַ א֣וֹ עִוֵּ֑ר הֲלֹ֥א אָנֹכִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃
Exodus 4:11: 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:89 of Mova's parse database.
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