--- title: Exodus 3:20 (JPS 1917) — And after that he will let you go. · tree and pragmatics description: And after that he will let you go. Who acts: Egypt, you. Exodus 3:20 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.75/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/3/) / [3:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.3.20/) / JPS 2 # Exodus 3:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And after that he will let you go. **Who acts:** Egypt, you · **What happens:** let, go · **To what, where:** you This is Exodus 3:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Egypt, you), 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:75 # text = And after that he will let you go. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | future | Egypt | you | | | after that | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And I will put forth My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.74/) 2. **And after that he will let you go.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:75` 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 3:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.74/) - next →: [Exodus 3:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.76/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 3:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.3.20/)