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title: Exodus 13:8 — And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It is because of th… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. Who acts: thou, bread, LORD, I. Exodus 13:8 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 13:8 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** thou, bread, LORD, I · **What happens:** tell, say, be, do, come · **To what, where:** son, Egypt · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Exodus 13:8 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — thou, bread, LORD, I — and what happens in the verse to son, Egypt, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 40 chapters of Exodus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וְהִגַּדְתָּ֣ לְבִנְךָ֔ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא לֵאמֹ֑ר בַּעֲב֣וּר זֶ֗ה עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לִ֔י בְּצֵאתִ֖י מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

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[And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.370/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:EXO:342
# text = וְהִגַּדְתָּ֣ לְבִנְךָ֔ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא לֵאמֹ֑ר בַּעֲב֣וּר זֶ֗ה עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לִ֔י בְּצֵאתִ֖י מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃
# verse = EXO.13.8
1-2	וְהִגַּדְתָּ֣	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_13:8!1|MId=o020130080011|Strong=2050b
2	הִגַּדְתָּ֣	נָגַד	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2	0	root	_	Gloss=you.will.tell|Ref=EXO_13:8!1|MId=o020130080012|Strong=5046|Frame=A0:020130030042;|Type=weqatal
3-5	לְבִנְךָ֔	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_13:8!2|MId=o020130080021|Strong=3807a
4	בִנ	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=child|Ref=EXO_13:8!2|MId=o020130080022|Strong=1121
5	ְךָ֔	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your|Ref=EXO_13:8!2|MId=o020130080023|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal
6-8	בַּיּ֥וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=EXO_13:8!3|MId=o020130080031|Strong=0871a
7	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	8	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=EXO_13:8!3|MId=o020130080031ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
8	יּ֥וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=day|Ref=EXO_13:8!3|MId=o020130080032|Strong=3117
9-10	הַה֖וּא	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	10	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=EXO_13:8!4|MId=o020130080041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
10	ה֖וּא	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	det	_	Gloss=that|Ref=EXO_13:8!4|MId=o020130080042|Strong=1931|Type=personal
11-12	לֵאמֹ֑ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	לֵ	לְ	ADP	_	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=EXO_13:8!5|MId=o020130080051|Strong=3807a
12	אמֹ֑ר	אָמַר	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	11	fixed	_	Gloss=|Ref=EXO_13:8!5|MId=o020130080052|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:020130030042;|Type=infinitive_construct
13-14	בַּעֲב֣וּר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=because|Ref=EXO_13:8!6|MId=o020130080061|Strong=0871a
14	עֲב֣וּר	עָבוּר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Gloss=of|Ref=EXO_13:8!6|MId=o020130080062|Strong=5668
15	זֶ֗ה	זֶה	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	Gloss=what|Ref=EXO_13:8!7|MId=o020130080071|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative
16	עָשָׂ֤ה	עָשָׂה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	advcl	_	Gloss=he.did|Ref=EXO_13:8!8|MId=o020130080081|Strong=6213|Frame=A1:020130080071;A0:020130080091;|Type=qatal
17	יְהוָה֙	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	16	nsubj	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=EXO_13:8!9|MId=o020130080091|Strong=3068
18-19	לִ֔י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=for|Ref=EXO_13:8!10|MId=o020130080101|Strong=3807a
19	ִ֔י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	Gloss=me|Ref=EXO_13:8!10|MId=o020130080102|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
20-22	בְּצֵאתִ֖י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	21	case	_	Gloss=when|Ref=EXO_13:8!11|MId=o020130080111|Strong=0871a
21	צֵאת	יָצָא	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	16	advcl	_	Gloss=I|Ref=EXO_13:8!11|MId=o020130080112|Strong=3318|Frame=A0:020130080113;|Type=infinitive_construct
22	ִ֖י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	Gloss=came.out|Ref=EXO_13:8!11|MId=o020130080113|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal
23-24	מִמִּצְרָֽיִם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
23	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	24	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=EXO_13:8!12|MId=o020130080121|Strong=4480
24	מִּצְרָֽיִם	מִצְרַיִם	PROPN	_	_	21	obl	_	Gloss=Egypt|Ref=EXO_13:8!12|MId=o020130080122|Strong=4714
25	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	24	punct	_	Ref=EXO_13:8!12
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: no
- the frame alone: decl · assert · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| הִגַּדְתָּ *you will tell* | weqatal · hiphil |  |  |  |  |
| אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal |  |  |  |  |
| עָשָׂה *he did* | qatal · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | זֶה *what* |  |  |
| צֵאת *I* | infinitive construct · qal | ִי *came out* |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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וּתְחַוֵי לִבְנָךְ בְּיוֹמָא הַהוּא לְמֵימָר בְּדִיל דֵין עֲבַד יְיָ לִי בְּמִפְּקִי מִמִצְרָיִם:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.370/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:EXO:342`.

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