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title: Exodus 8:17 (JPS 1917) — (8-17) Else, if thou wilt not let My people go, behold, I will send… · tree and pragmatics
description: (8-17) Else, if thou wilt not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. Who acts: thou, I, houses. Exodus 8:
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# Exodus 8:17 · JPS 1917

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(8-17) Else, if thou wilt not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.

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**Who acts:** thou, I, houses · **What happens:** not let, go, send, be · **To what, where:** swarms

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This is Exodus 8:17 · 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, I, houses), 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:223
# text = (8-17) Else, if thou wilt not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
2	8-17	8-17	X	XX	_	19	dep	_	_
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Else	else	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
8	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
11	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	swarms	swarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Egyptians	egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	cop	_	_
49	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	swarms	swarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	also	also	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
59	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	61	advmod	_	_
60	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	acl:relcl	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | future | I | swarms of flies |  |  |  | upon thee; else *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swarm=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | shall | the houses of the Egyptians |  |  |  |  | of swarms of flies and the ground; full *property* | tree rules |

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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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כִּ֣י אִם־אֵינְךָ֮ מְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ אֶת־עַמִּי֒ הִנְנִי֩ מַשְׁלִ֨יחַ בְּךָ֜ וּבַעֲבָדֶ֧יךָ וּֽבְעַמְּךָ֛ וּבְבָתֶּ֖יךָ אֶת־הֶעָרֹ֑ב וּמָ֨לְא֜וּ בָּתֵּ֤י מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ אֶת־הֶ֣עָרֹ֔ב וְגַ֥ם הָאֲדָמָ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־הֵ֥ם עָלֶֽיהָ׃

[Exodus 8:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.17/)

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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:223` of Mova's parse database.

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