--- title: Exodus 8:6 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'Against to-morrow.' And he said: 'Be it according to t… · tree and pragmatics description: And he said: 'Against to-morrow.' And he said: 'Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. Who acts: Moses, thou, none, thy. 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And he said: 'Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. **Who acts:** Moses, thou, none, thy · **What happens:** say, be, know, word · **To what, where:** morrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Exodus 8:6 · 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, thou, none, thy), 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:212 # text = And he said: 'Against to-morrow.' And he said: 'Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 Against against ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 And and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 17 Be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 according accord ADP VBG _ 22 case _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nsubj _ _ 26 mayest may AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 there there PRON EX _ 30 expl _ _ 30 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 30 nsubj _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 unto unto ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Moses | | | | | against morrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Moses | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | infinitive | | morrow | | | | accord thy word | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **know** | may | thou | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **be** | present | none | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **word** | | thy | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיֹּ֖אמֶר לְמָחָ֑ר וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ כִּדְבָ֣רְךָ֔ לְמַ֣עַן תֵּדַ֔ע כִּי־אֵ֖ין כַּיהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ [Exodus 8:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:212` 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 8:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.211/) - next →: [Exodus 8:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.213/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 8:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.6/)