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title: Exodus 15:14 (JPS 1917) — The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the i… · tree and pragmatics
description: The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. Who acts: peoples, people, pangs. Exodus 15:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 15:14 · JPS 1917

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The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

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**Who acts:** peoples, people, pangs · **What happens:** hear, tremble, take hold · **To what, where:** inhabitants

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This is Exodus 15:14 · 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 (peoples, people, pangs), 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:430
# text = The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tremble	tremble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	pangs	pang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Philistia	Philistia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | the peoples |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tremble** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take hold** | present · perfect | pangs |  |  | the inhabitants of Philistia |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on inhabitant=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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שָֽׁמְע֥וּ עַמִּ֖ים יִרְגָּז֑וּן חִ֣יל אָחַ֔ז יֹשְׁבֵ֖י פְּלָֽשֶׁת׃

[Exodus 15:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.14/)

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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:430` 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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