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title: Exodus 7:27 (JPS 1917) — (7-27) And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all t… · tree and pragmatics
description: (7-27) And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. Who acts: thou, people, I. Exodus 7:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 7:27 · JPS 1917

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(7-27) And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.

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**Who acts:** thou, people, I · **What happens:** refuse, not let, go, smite · **To what, where:** people, borders

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This is Exodus 7:27 · 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 (thou, people, I), 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:204
# text = (7-27) And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
2	7-27	7-27	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	discourse	_	_
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	refuse	refuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **smite** | future | I | thy borders |  |  |  | with frogs | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent border=Patient with frog=Instrument |

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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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וְאִם־מָאֵ֥ן אַתָּ֖ה לְשַׁלֵּ֑חַ הִנֵּ֣ה אָנֹכִ֗י נֹגֵ֛ף אֶת־כָּל־גְּבוּלְךָ֖ בַּֽצְפַרְדְּעִֽים׃

[Exodus 7:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.27/)

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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:204` 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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