--- title: Exodus 7:1 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's stead t… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's stead to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Who acts: LORD, I, Aaron. 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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 (LORD, I, Aaron), 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:178 # text = And the LORD said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's stead to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 See see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 14 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 stead stead NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 28 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 prophet prophet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD | | | | | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **set** | present · perfect | I | thee | Pharaoh | God's stead | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme in stead=Destination | | 4 | **is a** | shall | Aaron | thy prophet | | | | | tree rules | 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 יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה רְאֵ֛ה נְתַתִּ֥יךָ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לְפַרְעֹ֑ה וְאַהֲרֹ֥ן אָחִ֖יךָ יִהְיֶ֥ה נְבִיאֶֽךָ׃ [Exodus 7:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:178` 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 6:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.177/) - next →: [Exodus 7:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.179/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 7:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.1/)