--- title: Exodus 8:20 (JPS 1917) — (8-20) And the LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies… · tree and pragmatics description: (8-20) And the LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses; and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the swarms of flies. Who acts: LORD, grievous swarms, reason. 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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, grievous swarms, reason), 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:226 # text = (8-20) And the LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses; and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the swarms of flies. 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 2 8-20 8-20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 dep _ _ 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 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ _ 12 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 grievous grievous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 swarms swarm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 ' 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 ruined ruin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 swarms swarm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the LORD | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | grievous swarms of flies | | | the house of Pharaoh and LORD's servants's houses; there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **ruin** | past · passive | reason of the swarms of flies | the land | | all land of Egypt | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | 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} וַיַּ֤עַשׂ יְהוָה֙ כֵּ֔ן וַיָּבֹא֙ עָרֹ֣ב כָּבֵ֔ד בֵּ֥יתָה פַרְעֹ֖ה וּבֵ֣ית עֲבָדָ֑יו וּבְכָל־אֶ֧רֶץ מִצְרַ֛יִם תִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת הָאָ֖רֶץ מִפְּנֵ֥י הֶעָרֹֽב׃ [Exodus 8:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:226` 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 8:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.225/) - next →: [Exodus 8:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.227/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 8:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.20/)