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title: Exodus 7:7 (JPS 1917) — And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three yea… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh. Who acts: Moses, Aaron, children. Exodus 7:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 7:7 · JPS 1917

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And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.

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**Who acts:** Moses, Aaron, children · **What happens:** be, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 7:7 · 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 (Moses, Aaron, children), 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:184
# text = And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	fourscore	fourscore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	fourscore	fourscore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Moses |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Aaron |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | unto Pharaoh | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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וּמֹשֶׁה֙ בֶּן־שְׁמֹנִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה וְאַֽהֲרֹ֔ן בֶּן־שָׁלֹ֥שׁ וּשְׁמֹנִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה בְּדַבְּרָ֖ם אֶל־פַּרְעֹֽה׃פ

[Exodus 7:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.7/)

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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:184` 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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