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title: Exodus 12:12 (JPS 1917) — For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smit… · tree and pragmatics
description: For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD. Who acts: I. Exodus 12:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Exodus 12:12 · JPS 1917

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For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, smite, execute, be · **To what, where:** land, first born, judgments, LORD

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This is Exodus 12:12 · 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 (I), 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:322
# text = For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	born	first-born	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc:preconj	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
34	against	against	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	execute	execute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
43	judgments	judgment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
44	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	LORD	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | I |  |  | the land of Egypt | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through land=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **smite** | future | I *not said here* | all first born |  | the land of Egypt |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus first-born=Experiencer |
| 3 | **execute** | future | I | judgments |  |  |  | against all gods of Egypt | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | the LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וְעָבַרְתִּ֣י בְאֶֽרֶץ־מִצְרַיִם֮ בַּלַּ֣יְלָה הַזֶּה֒ וְהִכֵּיתִ֤י כָל־בְּכוֹר֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם מֵאָדָ֖ם וְעַד־בְּהֵמָ֑ה וּבְכָל־אֱלֹהֵ֥י מִצְרַ֛יִם אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה שְׁפָטִ֖ים אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

[Exodus 12:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.12/)

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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:322` of Mova's parse database.

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