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title: Exodus 3:20 (JPS 1917) — And I will put forth My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I will put forth My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst thereof. Who acts: I, My. Exodus 3:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 3:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And I will put forth My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst thereof.

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**Who acts:** I, My · **What happens:** put, smite, do, wonder · **To what, where:** hand, Egypt, wonders, midst

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This is Exodus 3:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (I, My), 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:74
# text = And I will put forth My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst thereof.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **put** | future | I | My hand |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 2 | **smite** | infinitive | I *not said here* | Egypt |  |  |  | with My wonders | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent egypt=Patient with wonder=Instrument |
| 3 | **do** | future | I | My wonders |  | the midst |  | thereof *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wonder** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: 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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וְשָׁלַחְתִּ֤י אֶת־יָדִי֙ וְהִכֵּיתִ֣י אֶת־מִצְרַ֔יִם בְּכֹל֙ נִפְלְאֹתַ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֖ה בְּקִרְבּ֑וֹ וְאַחֲרֵי־כֵ֖ן יְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֶתְכֶֽם׃

[Exodus 3:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.3.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And I will put forth My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst thereof.**
2. [And after that he will let you go.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.75/)

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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:74` 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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