Exodus 4:16 · JPS 1917

And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him in God's stead.

Who acts: lord, spokesman, thou · What happens: be, come, pass · To what, where: spokesman, mouth, stead

This is Exodus 4:16 · 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 (lord, spokesman, thou), 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	_	6 spokesman	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spokesman	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spokesman	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 spokesman	cop
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 spokesman	nmod:poss
6	spokesman	spokesman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	unto	unto	ADP	_	9 people	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spokesman	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 spokesman	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pass	mark
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mouth	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 mouth	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mouth	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 mouth	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 mouth	cop
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 thee	case
23	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 mouth	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mouth	det
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pass	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 him	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 him	cc
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 him	nsubj
29	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	32 him	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 him	cop
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mouth	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 stead	case
34	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 stead	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 God	case
36	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 him	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spokesman	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	shall	lord	thy spokesman		unto the people	tree rules
2	come	shall	spokesman				tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	spokesman not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	shall	lord	a mouth		to thee	tree rules
5	is	shall	thou		God's stead	to Moses	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

וְדִבֶּר־ה֥וּא לְךָ֖ אֶל־הָעָ֑ם וְהָ֤יָה הוּא֙ יִֽהְיֶה־לְּךָ֣ לְפֶ֔ה וְאַתָּ֖ה תִּֽהְיֶה־לּ֥וֹ לֵֽאלֹהִֽים׃

Exodus 4:16: 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:96 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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