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title: Exodus 1:9 (JPS 1917) — And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us; Who acts: people. Exodus 1:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 1:9 · JPS 1917

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And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us;

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 1:9 · 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 (people), 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:8
# text = And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nummod	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
9	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | unto king's he people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the people of the children of Israel |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the people of the children of Israel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for us | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אֶל־עַמּ֑וֹ הִנֵּ֗ה עַ֚ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל רַ֥ב וְעָצ֖וּם מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

[Exodus 1:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.9/)

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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:8` 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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