--- title: Exodus 7:21 (JPS 1917) — And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul,… · tree and pragmatics description: And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. Who acts: fish, river, Egyptians, blood. 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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 (fish, river, Egyptians, blood), 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:198 # text = And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 foul foul ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Egyptians Egyptian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 32 throughout throughout ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the fish | | | the river | | | tree rules | | 2 | **die** | past | the fish | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **become** | past | the river | | | | | foul *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **drink** | could | the Egyptians | water | | the river | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past | the blood | | | | throughout all land | of Egypt | 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} וְהַדָּגָ֨ה אֲשֶׁר־בַּיְאֹ֥ר מֵ֙תָה֙ וַיִּבְאַ֣שׁ הַיְאֹ֔ר וְלֹא־יָכְל֣וּ מִצְרַ֔יִם לִשְׁתּ֥וֹת מַ֖יִם מִן־הַיְאֹ֑ר וַיְהִ֥י הַדָּ֖ם בְּכָל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃ [Exodus 7:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:198` 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 7:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.197/) - next →: [Exodus 7:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.199/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 7:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.21/)