--- title: Exodus 5:4 (JPS 1917) — And the king of Egypt said unto them: 'Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aa… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king of Egypt said unto them: 'Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens.' Who acts: king, ye, people, pestilence. 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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 (king, ye, people, pestilence), 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:119 # text = And the king of Egypt said unto them: 'Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 11 Wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 13 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 24 loose loose ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 ? ? PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 29 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 unto unto ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 burdens burden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: disagree - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king of Egypt | | | | | unto pestilence | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **cause** | present · do-support | ye | the people | | | | wherefore *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **break** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | | | | | from pestilence's work; loose *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from work=Co-Patient | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | | you | | | | unto your burdens | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 5 | **work** | | pestilence | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **burden** | | your | | | | | | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם לָ֚מָּה מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאַהֲרֹ֔ן תַּפְרִ֥יעוּ אֶת־הָעָ֖ם מִמַּֽעֲשָׂ֑יו לְכ֖וּ לְסִבְלֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ [Exodus 5:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:119` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 5:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.118/) - next →: [Exodus 5:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.120/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 5:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.4/)