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title: Exodus 18:3 (JPS 1917) — and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he sa… · tree and pragmatics
description: and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land'; Who acts: name, Jethro, I. Exodus 18:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 18:3 · JPS 1917

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and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land';

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**Who acts:** name, Jethro, I · **What happens:** be, say, name · **To what, where:** Gershom, stranger, strange land, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 18:3 · 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 (name, Jethro, 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:503
# text = and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land';
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Gershom	Gershom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the name of the one | Gershom |  |  |  | of Zipporah's two sons | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jethro |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present · perfect | I | a stranger |  | a strange land |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the one |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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וְאֵ֖ת שְׁנֵ֣י בָנֶ֑יהָ אֲשֶׁ֨ר שֵׁ֤ם הָֽאֶחָד֙ גֵּֽרְשֹׁ֔ם כִּ֣י אָמַ֔ר גֵּ֣ר הָיִ֔יתִי בְּאֶ֖רֶץ נָכְרִיָּֽה׃

[Exodus 18:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.18.3/)

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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:503` 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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