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title: Exodus 10:2 (JPS 1917) — and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's s… · tree and pragmatics
description: and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what I have wrought upon Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them; that ye may know that I am the LORD.' Who acts: thou, I, ye, My. Exodus 10:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 10:2 · JPS 1917

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and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what I have wrought upon Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them; that ye may know that I am the LORD.'

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**Who acts:** thou, I, ye, My · **What happens:** tell, wrought, do, know, be, sign · **To what, where:** ears, signs, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 10:2 · 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 (thou, I, ye, My), 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:272
# text = and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what I have wrought upon Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them; that ye may know that I am the LORD.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	among	among	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nsubj	_	_
39	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	ccomp	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | may | thou |  |  | the ears of thy son and thy son's son |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wrought** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | upon Egypt | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | I | My signs |  |  |  | among signs *= sign* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 4 | **know** | may | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | present | I | the LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sign** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וּלְמַ֡עַן תְּסַפֵּר֩ בְּאָזְנֵ֨י בִנְךָ֜ וּבֶן־בִּנְךָ֗ אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁ֤ר הִתְעַלַּ֙לְתִּי֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם וְאֶת־אֹתֹתַ֖י אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֣מְתִּי בָ֑ם וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם כִּי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

[Exodus 10:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.10.2/)

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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:272` 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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