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title: Exodus 5:23 (JPS 1917) — For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath dealt ill… · tree and pragmatics
description: For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast Thou delivered Thy people at all.' Who acts: I, Pharaoh, Thou, Thy. Exodus 5:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 5:23 · JPS 1917

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For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast Thou delivered Thy people at all.'

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**Who acts:** I, Pharaoh, Thou, Thy · **What happens:** come, speak, deal, deliver, name · **To what, where:** Pharaoh, name, people, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 5:23 · 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 (I, Pharaoh, Thou, Thy), 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:139
# text = For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast Thou delivered Thy people at all.'
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	ill	ill	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
22	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
24	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	_
25	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | I |  |  | Pharaoh |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pharaoh=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | Thy name |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deal** | present · perfect | Pharaoh |  |  |  |  | with this people; ill *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with people=Theme |
| 4 | **deliver** | present · perfect | Thou | Thy people |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 5 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וּמֵאָ֞ז בָּ֤אתִי אֶל־פַּרְעֹה֙ לְדַבֵּ֣ר בִּשְׁמֶ֔ךָ הֵרַ֖ע לָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה וְהַצֵּ֥ל לֹא־הִצַּ֖לְתָּ אֶת־עַמֶּֽךָ׃

[Exodus 5:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.23/)

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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:139` 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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