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title: Exodus 18:8 (JPS 1917) — And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pha… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them. Who acts: Moses, LORD, travail. Exodus 18:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Exodus 18:8 · JPS 1917

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And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

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**Who acts:** Moses, LORD, travail · **What happens:** tell, do, come, deliver · **To what, where:** all, father, sons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 18:8 · 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 (Moses, LORD, travail), 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:508
# text = And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	travail	travail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Moses | all | Moses's father |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Pharaoh and the Egyptians; for Israel's sake | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | all travail |  |  |  |  | upon sons *= son*; by the way | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 4 | **deliver** | past | the LORD | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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וַיְסַפֵּ֤ר מֹשֶׁה֙ לְחֹ֣תְנ֔וֹ אֵת֩ כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לְפַרְעֹ֣ה וּלְמִצְרַ֔יִם עַ֖ל אוֹדֹ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֵ֤ת כָּל־הַתְּלָאָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר מְצָאָ֣תַם בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ וַיַּצִּלֵ֖ם יְהוָֽה׃

[Exodus 18:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.18.8/)

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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:508` 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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