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title: Exodus 9:13 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and sta… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. Who acts: LORD, people. Exodus 9:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 9:13 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

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**Who acts:** LORD, people · **What happens:** say, rise up, stand, let, go, serve · **To what, where:** Pharaoh, people, Me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 9:13 · 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 (LORD, people), 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:248
# text = And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Hebrews	Hebrews	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
38	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
46	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rise up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  | Pharaoh |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before pharaoh=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive |  | My people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive | My people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **serve** | may | people | Me |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה הַשְׁכֵּ֣ם בַּבֹּ֔קֶר וְהִתְיַצֵּ֖ב לִפְנֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֑ה וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֵלָ֗יו כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י הָֽעִבְרִ֔ים שַׁלַּ֥ח אֶת־עַמִּ֖י וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃

[Exodus 9:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.13/)

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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:248` 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.

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