--- title: Exodus 9:3 (JPS 1917) — behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the fie… · tree and pragmatics description: behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks; there shall be a very grievous murrain. Who acts: hand, cattle, grievous murrain. 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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 (hand, cattle, grievous murrain), 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:237 # text = behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks; there shall be a very grievous murrain. 1 behold behold INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 upon upon ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 upon upon ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 asses ass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 herds herd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 upon upon ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 flocks flock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 41 expl _ _ 40 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 very very ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 grievous grievous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 murrain murrain NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the hand of the LORD | | | | | upon thy cattle; upon the horses; upon the asses and the herds and the flocks; upon the camels | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | thy cattle | | | the field | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | shall | a grievous murrain | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} הִנֵּ֨ה יַד־יְהוָ֜ה הוֹיָ֗ה בְּמִקְנְךָ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה בַּסּוּסִ֤ים בַּֽחֲמֹרִים֙ בַּגְּמַלִּ֔ים בַּבָּקָ֖ר וּבַצֹּ֑אן דֶּ֖בֶר כָּבֵ֥ד מְאֹֽד׃ [Exodus 9:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:237` 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 9:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.236/) - next →: [Exodus 9:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.238/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 9:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.3/)