--- title: Exodus 7:26 (JPS 1917) — (7-26) And the LORD spoke unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and say u… · tree and pragmatics description: (7-26) And the LORD spoke unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. Who acts: LORD, people. 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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, people), 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:203 # text = (7-26) And the LORD spoke unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 2 7-26 7-26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 parataxis _ _ 3 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 13 in in ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 unto unto ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 unto unto ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Thus thus ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 28 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 36 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, form=decl, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD | | | | | unto Moses | tree rules | | 2 | **go in** | infinitive | | | | | | unto Pharaoh | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | unto LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | My people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | My people *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **serve** | may | people | Me | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | 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 בֹּ֖א אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֑ה וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֵלָ֗יו כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה שַׁלַּ֥ח אֶת־עַמִּ֖י וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃ [Exodus 7:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:203` 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 7:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.202/) - next →: [Exodus 7:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.204/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 7:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.26/)