--- title: Exodus 1:8 (JPS 1917) — Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. · tree and pragmatics description: Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. Who acts: new king. Exodus 1:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Exodus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/) / [chapter 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/1/) / [1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.8/) / JPS 1 # Exodus 1:8 · JPS 1917 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. **Who acts:** new king · **What happens:** arise, not know · **To what, where:** Joseph This is Exodus 1:8 · 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 (new king), 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:7 # text = Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 1 Now now ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX _ 3 expl _ _ 3 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 13 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | past | a new king over Egypt | | | there | now | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **know** | past | a new king over Egypt | Joseph | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joseph=Stimulus | 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} וַיָּ֥קָם מֶֽלֶךְ־חָדָ֖שׁ עַל־מִצְרָ֑יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יָדַ֖ע אֶת־יוֹסֵֽף׃ [Exodus 1:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:7` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 1:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.6/) - next →: [Exodus 1:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.8/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.8/)