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title: Exodus 18:4 (JPS 1917) — and the name of the other was Eliezer: 'for the God of my father was… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the name of the other was Eliezer: 'for the God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.' Who acts: name, God. Exodus 18:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 18:4 · JPS 1917

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and the name of the other was Eliezer: 'for the God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.'

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**Who acts:** name, God · **What happens:** be, deliver · **To what, where:** Eliezer, help, me, sword

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This is Exodus 18:4 · 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, God), 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:504
# text = and the name of the other was Eliezer: 'for the God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Eliezer	Eliezer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 | **is a** | past | the name of the other | Eliezer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the God of my father | my help |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deliver** | past | the God of my father *not said here* | me |  | the sword of Pharaoh |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from sword=Initial\_Location |

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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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וְשֵׁ֥ם הָאֶחָ֖ד אֱלִיעֶ֑זֶר כִּֽי־אֱלֹהֵ֤י אָבִי֙ בְּעֶזְרִ֔י וַיַּצִּלֵ֖נִי מֵחֶ֥רֶב פַּרְעֹֽה׃

[Exodus 18:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.18.4/)

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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:504` 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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