--- title: Exodus 9:27 (JPS 1917) — And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them… · tree and pragmatics description: And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them: 'I have sinned this time; the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. Who acts: Pharaoh, I, LORD, people. 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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 (Pharaoh, I, 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:262 # text = And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them: 'I have sinned this time; the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 unto unto ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 sinned sin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 righteous righteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Pharaoh | | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **call** | past | Pharaoh *not said here* | | | | | for Moses and Aaron | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for moses=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Pharaoh *not said here* | | | | | unto children *= child* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **sin** | present · perfect | I | | | | time | | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | the LORD | | | | | righteous *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | my people | | | | | wicked *property* | tree rules | 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} וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח פַּרְעֹ֗ה וַיִּקְרָא֙ לְמֹשֶׁ֣ה וּֽלְאַהֲרֹ֔ן וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֖ם חָטָ֣אתִי הַפָּ֑עַם יְהוָה֙ הַצַּדִּ֔יק וַאֲנִ֥י וְעַמִּ֖י הָרְשָׁעִֽים׃ [Exodus 9:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.27/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:262` 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 9:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.261/) - next →: [Exodus 9:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.263/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 9:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.27/)