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title: Exodus 9:20 (JPS 1917) — He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses; Who acts: hail, servants. Exodus 9:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 9:20 · JPS 1917

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He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses;

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**Who acts:** hail, servants · **What happens:** fear, make, flee, word · **To what, where:** word, servants, houses, LORD

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This is Exodus 9:20 · 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 (hail, servants), 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:255
# text = He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses;
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past |  | the word of the LORD |  |  |  | among the servants of Pharaoh | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past | hail | hail's servants and hail's cattle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flee** | infinitive | hail's servants and hail's cattle *not said here* |  |  | the houses |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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הַיָּרֵא֙ אֶת־דְּבַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה מֵֽעַבְדֵ֖י פַּרְעֹ֑ה הֵנִ֛יס אֶת־עֲבָדָ֥יו וְאֶת־מִקְנֵ֖הוּ אֶל־הַבָּתִּֽים׃

[Exodus 9:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.20/)

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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:255` 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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