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title: Exodus 9:32 (JPS 1917) — But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. — · tree and pragmatics
description: But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. — Who acts: wheat. Exodus 9:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 9:32 · JPS 1917

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But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. —

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**Who acts:** wheat · **What happens:** not smite, ripen · **To what, where:** wheat

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This is Exodus 9:32 · 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 (wheat), 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:267
# text = But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. —
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spelt	spelt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ripen	ripen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	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 | **not** **smite** | past · passive |  | the wheat and the spelt |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **ripen** | present | wheat |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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וְהַחִטָּ֥ה וְהַכֻּסֶּ֖מֶת לֹ֣א נֻכּ֑וּ כִּ֥י אֲפִילֹ֖ת הֵֽנָּה׃

[Exodus 9:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.32/)

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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:267` 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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