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title: Exodus 1:2 (JPS 1917) — Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; · tree and pragmatics
description: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Exodus 1:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 1:2 · JPS 1917

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Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

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This is Exodus 1:2 · 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:EXO:1
# text = Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
1	Reuben	Reuben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Simeon	Simeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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רְאוּבֵ֣ן שִׁמְע֔וֹן לֵוִ֖י וִיהוּדָֽה׃

[Exodus 1:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.2/)

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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:1` 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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