--- title: Exodus 10:8 (JPS 1917) — And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh; and he said unt… · tree and pragmatics description: And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh; and he said unto them: 'Go, serve the LORD your God; but who are they that shall go?' Who acts: Moses, servants. 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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 (Moses, 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:278 # text = And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh; and he said unto them: 'Go, serve the LORD your God; but who are they that shall go?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 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 : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 serve serve VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 18 conj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: other - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=other | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past · passive | | Moses and Aaron | | | again | unto Pharaoh | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Moses | | | | | unto servants *= servant* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **serve** | infinitive | | the LORD | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Attribute | | 5 | **is a** | present | servants *= servant* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | shall | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וַיּוּשַׁ֞ב אֶת־מֹשֶׁ֤ה וְאֶֽת־אַהֲרֹן֙ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֔ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם לְכ֥וּ עִבְד֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם מִ֥י וָמִ֖י הַהֹלְכִֽים׃ [Exodus 10:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.10.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:278` 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 10:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.277/) - next →: [Exodus 10:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.279/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 10:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.10.8/)