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title: Exodus 2:17 (JPS 1917) — And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. Who acts: shepherds, Moses. Exodus 2:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 2:17 · JPS 1917

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And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

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**Who acts:** shepherds, Moses · **What happens:** come, drive away, stand up, help, water · **To what, where:** shepherds, flock

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This is Exodus 2:17 · 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 (shepherds, Moses), 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:43
# text = And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	watered	water	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **come** | past | the shepherds |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drive away** | past | the shepherds *not said here* | shepherds *= shepherd* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
| 3 | **stand up** | past | Moses |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **help** | past | Moses *not said here* | shepherds *= shepherd* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **water** | past | Moses *not said here* | shepherds's flock |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent flock=Destination |

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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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וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ הָרֹעִ֖ים וַיְגָרְשׁ֑וּם וַיָּ֤קָם מֹשֶׁה֙ וַיּ֣וֹשִׁעָ֔ן וַיַּ֖שְׁקְ אֶת־צֹאנָֽם׃

[Exodus 2:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.2.17/)

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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:43` 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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