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title: Exodus 22:22 (JPS 1917) — (22-22) If thou afflict them in any wise — for if they cry at all un… · tree and pragmatics
description: (22-22) If thou afflict them in any wise — for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry — Who acts: thou, widow, I. Exodus 22:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 22:22 · JPS 1917

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(22-22) If thou afflict them in any wise — for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry —

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**Who acts:** thou, widow, I · **What happens:** afflict, cry, hear · **To what, where:** widow, wise, cry

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This is Exodus 22:22 · 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 (thou, widow, 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:638
# text = (22-22) If thou afflict them in any wise — for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry —
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
2	22-22	22-22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	dep	_	_
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	afflict	afflict	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	wise	wise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afflict** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | widow |  | any wise |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | widow |  |  |  |  | unto Me; all *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | future | I | widow's cry |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cry** |  | widow |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אִם־עַנֵּ֥ה תְעַנֶּ֖ה אֹת֑וֹ כִּ֣י אִם־צָעֹ֤ק יִצְעַק֙ אֵלַ֔י שָׁמֹ֥עַ אֶשְׁמַ֖ע צַעֲקָתֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 22:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.22/)

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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:638` 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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