Exodus 32:23 · JPS 1917
So they said unto me: Make us a god, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
Who acts: people, god, man, we · What happens: say, make, go, bring up, not know, become · To what, where: god, us, land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 32:23 · 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 (people, god, man, we), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Make | punct |
| 7 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Make | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 god | det |
| 10 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 god | acl:relcl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 know | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Moses | case |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Moses | case |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Moses | fixed |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 Moses | det |
| 22 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 know | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Moses | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Moses | appos |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 brought | nsubj |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 man | acl:relcl |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 brought | compound:prt |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 land | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 land | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brought | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Egypt | case |
| 35 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 land | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 37 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 know | nsubj |
| 38 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Make | parataxis |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 know | advmod |
| 40 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 become | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 become | aux:pass |
| 42 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 know | ccomp |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 become | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | people | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | a god | us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary god=Product | ||||
| 3 | go | shall | a god | before us | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before we=Location | ||||
| 4 | bring up | past | the man | us | the land of Egypt | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient | |||
| 5 | not know | present | we | for this Moses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | become | present · passive | of Moses | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ לִ֔י עֲשֵׂה־לָ֣נוּ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֵלְכ֖וּ לְפָנֵ֑ינוּ כִּי־זֶ֣ה ׀ מֹשֶׁ֣ה הָאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר הֶֽעֱלָ֙נוּ֙ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם לֹ֥א יָדַ֖עְנוּ מֶה־הָ֥יָה לֽוֹ׃
Exodus 32:23: 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:968 of Mova's parse database.
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