--- title: Exodus 10:7 (JPS 1917) — And Pharaoh's servants said unto him: 'How long shall this man be a… · tree and pragmatics description: And Pharaoh's servants said unto him: 'How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God, knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?' Who acts: servants, man, men, thou. 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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 (servants, man, men, thou), 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:277 # text = And Pharaoh's servants said unto him: 'How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God, knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 10 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 snare snare NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 18 unto unto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 21 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 knowest know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 36 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 38 yet yet ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 ccomp _ _ 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Pharaoh's servants | | | | | unto Pharaoh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | shall | this man | a snare | | | | unto us; long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | the men | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | the men *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **serve** | may | servants *= servant* | the LORD | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Attribute | | 6 | **not** **know** | present | thou | | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **destroy** | present · passive | | Egypt | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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} וַיֹּאמְרוּ֩ עַבְדֵ֨י פַרְעֹ֜ה אֵלָ֗יו עַד־מָתַי֙ יִהְיֶ֨ה זֶ֥ה לָ֙נוּ֙ לְמוֹקֵ֔שׁ שַׁלַּח֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְיַֽעַבְד֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם הֲטֶ֣רֶם תֵּדַ֔ע כִּ֥י אָבְדָ֖ה מִצְרָֽיִם׃ [Exodus 10:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.10.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:277` 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 10:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.276/) - next →: [Exodus 10:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.278/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 10:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.10.7/)