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title: Exodus 7:15 (JPS 1917) — Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the wate… · tree and pragmatics
description: Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand. Who acts: you, Pharaoh, thou, rod. Exodus 7:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Exodus 7:15 · JPS 1917

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Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand.

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**Who acts:** you, Pharaoh, thou, rod · **What happens:** get, go out, stand, meet, turn, take in · **To what, where:** thee, Pharaoh, rod, serpent, hand

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This is Exodus 7:15 · 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 (you, Pharaoh, thou, rod), 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:192
# text = Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand.
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nsubj	_	_
42	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | thee |  |  | morning | unto Pharaoh | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go out** | present | Pharaoh |  |  |  |  | unto the water | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | by the river's brink | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by brink=Location |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | Pharaoh |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | past · passive |  | the rod |  | a serpent |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to serpent=Trajectory |
| 6 | **take in** | shall | the rod | thy hand |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |

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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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לֵ֣ךְ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֞ה בַּבֹּ֗קֶר הִנֵּה֙ יֹצֵ֣א הַמַּ֔יְמָה וְנִצַּבְתָּ֥ לִקְרָאת֖וֹ עַל־שְׂפַ֣ת הַיְאֹ֑ר וְהַמַּטֶּ֛ה אֲשֶׁר־נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ לְנָחָ֖שׁ תִּקַּ֥ח בְּיָדֶֽךָ׃

[Exodus 7:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.15/)

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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:192` of Mova's parse database.

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