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# Exodus 13:14 · JPS 1917

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And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying: What is this? that thou shalt say unto him: By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;

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**Who acts:** son, thou, LORD · **What happens:** ask, come, say, be, bring out · **To what, where:** thee, this, us, Egypt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 13:14 · 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 (son, thou, LORD), 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:376
# text = And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying: What is this? that thou shalt say unto him: By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	asketh	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	ccomp	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
28	By	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
35	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | thy son | thee |  |  | time |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | thy son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thy son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | unto son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bring out** | past | the LORD | us |  | Egypt |  | by strength of hand; from the house of bondage | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=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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וְהָיָ֞ה כִּֽי־יִשְׁאָלְךָ֥ בִנְךָ֛ מָחָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֣ר מַה־זֹּ֑את וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֵלָ֔יו בְּחֹ֣זֶק יָ֗ד הוֹצִיאָ֧נוּ יְהוָ֛ה מִמִּצְרַ֖יִם מִבֵּ֥ית עֲבָדִֽים׃

[Exodus 13:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.14/)

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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:376` 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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