--- title: Exodus 9:10 (JPS 1917) — And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Mos… · tree and pragmatics description: And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it up heavenward; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast. Who acts: man, Moses, furnace, boil. 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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 (man, Moses, furnace, boil), 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:245 # text = And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it up heavenward; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 soot soot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 furnace furnace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 heavenward heavenward ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 boil boil NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ _ 26 breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 27 forth forth ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 blains blain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 upon upon ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | man | soot of the furnace | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soot=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | man *not said here* | | | Pharaoh | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before pharaoh=Location | | 3 | **throw up** | past | Moses | furnace | | | | heavenward *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **become** | past | furnace | a boil | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **break** | gerund | a boil *not said here* | | | | | with blains; upon man and beast; forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Location | 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} וַיִּקְח֞וּ אֶת־פִּ֣יחַ הַכִּבְשָׁ֗ן וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔ה וַיִּזְרֹ֥ק אֹת֛וֹ מֹשֶׁ֖ה הַשָּׁמָ֑יְמָה וַיְהִ֗י שְׁחִין֙ אֲבַעְבֻּעֹ֔ת פֹּרֵ֕חַ בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָֽה׃ [Exodus 9:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:245` 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 9:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.244/) - next →: [Exodus 9:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.246/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 9:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.10/)