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title: Psalms 105:38 (JPS 1917) — Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen u… · tree and pragmatics
description: Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen upon them. Who acts: Egypt, first born, fear. Psalms 105:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 105:38 · JPS 1917

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Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

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**Who acts:** Egypt, first born, fear · **What happens:** be, depart, fall, fear · **To what, where:** first born

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This is Psalms 105:38 · 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 (Egypt, first born, fear), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PSA:1899
# text = Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.
1	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Egypt |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **depart** | past | first born *= bear* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | the fear of first born |  |  |  |  | upon first born *= bear* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 4 | **fear** |  |  | first born *= bear* |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#hebrew}

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שָׂמַ֣ח מִצְרַ֣יִם בְּצֵאתָ֑ם כִּֽי־נָפַ֖ל פַּחְדָּ֣ם עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

[Psalms 105:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.38/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1899` 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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