Exodus 31:16 · JPS 1917
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
Who acts: children · What happens: keep, observe · To what, where: sabbath
This is Exodus 31:16 · 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 (children), 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | _ | 7 keep | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Israel | case |
| 5 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 children | nmod |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sabbath | det |
| 9 | sabbath | sabbath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 observe | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 observe | mark |
| 12 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 keep | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sabbath | det |
| 14 | sabbath | sabbath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 observe | obj |
| 15 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 17 generations | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 generations | nmod:poss |
| 17 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 observe | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 covenant | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 covenant | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 covenant | det |
| 21 | perpetual | perpetual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 covenant | amod |
| 22 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 observe | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=request, indirect=1, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | shall | the children of Israel | the sabbath | wherefore property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabbath=Theme | |||
| 2 | observe | to-infinitive | the children of Israel not said here | the sabbath | throughout sabbaths's generations | for a perpetual covenant | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent sabbath=Location for covenant=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
וְשָׁמְר֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶת־הַשַּׁבָּ֑ת לַעֲשׂ֧וֹת אֶת־הַשַּׁבָּ֛ת לְדֹרֹתָ֖ם בְּרִ֥ית עוֹלָֽם׃
Exodus 31:16: 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:942 of Mova's parse database.
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