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title: Exodus 1:1 (JPS 1917) — NOW THESE are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt w… · tree and pragmatics
description: NOW THESE are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; every man came with his household: Who acts: THESE, sons, man. Exodus 1:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 1:1 · JPS 1917

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NOW THESE are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; every man came with his household:

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**Who acts:** THESE, sons, man · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** names, Egypt

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This is Exodus 1:1 · 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 (THESE, sons, man), 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:EXO:0
# text = NOW THESE are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; every man came with his household:
1	NOW	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	THESE	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | THESE | the names |  |  | now | of the sons of Israel | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the sons of Israel |  |  | Egypt |  | with Jacob | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into egypt=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | every man |  |  |  |  | with man's household | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְאֵ֗לֶּה שְׁמוֹת֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַבָּאִ֖ים מִצְרָ֑יְמָה אֵ֣ת יַעֲקֹ֔ב אִ֥ישׁ וּבֵית֖וֹ בָּֽאוּ׃

[Exodus 1:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.1/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:0` 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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