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title: Psalms 135:8 (JPS 1917) — Who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast. · tree and pragmatics
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# Psalms 135:8 · JPS 1917

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Who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast.

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**What happens:** smite · **To what, where:** first born

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This is Psalms 135:8 · 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: 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:2465
# text = Who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast.
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	born	born	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past |  | the first born of Egypt of both man and beast |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus born=Experiencer |

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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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שֶֽׁ֭הִכָּה בְּכוֹרֵ֣י מִצְרָ֑יִם מֵ֝אָדָ֗ם עַד־בְּהֵמָֽה׃

[Psalms 135:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.135.8/)

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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:2465` 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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