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title: Exodus 2:19 (JPS 1917) — And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shep… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.' Who acts: shepherds, Egyptian. Exodus 2:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 2:19 · JPS 1917

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And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.'

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**Who acts:** shepherds, Egyptian · **What happens:** say, deliver, draw, water · **To what, where:** us, hand, water, flock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 2:19 · 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, Egyptian), 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:45
# text = And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Egyptian	Egyptian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	watered	water	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | shepherds *= shepherd* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **deliver** | past | a Egyptian | us |  | the hand of the shepherds |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent we=Theme out hand=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Egyptian | water |  |  |  | for us; moreover *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Result for we=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **water** | past | Egyptian *not said here* | the 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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וַתֹּאמַ֕רְןָ אִ֣ישׁ מִצְרִ֔י הִצִּילָ֖נוּ מִיַּ֣ד הָרֹעִ֑ים וְגַם־דָּלֹ֤ה דָלָה֙ לָ֔נוּ וַיַּ֖שְׁקְ אֶת־הַצֹּֽאן׃

[Exodus 2:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.2.19/)

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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:45` 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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