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title: Exodus 4:7 (JPS 1917) — And He said: 'Put thy hand back into thy bosom. — And he put his han… · tree and pragmatics
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# Exodus 4:7 · JPS 1917

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And He said: 'Put thy hand back into thy bosom. — And he put his hand back into his bosom; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh. —

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**Who acts:** lord, thy · **What happens:** say, put back, take, turn, bosom · **To what, where:** hand, bosom, it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 4:7 · 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 (lord, thy), 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:85
# text = And He said: 'Put thy hand back into thy bosom. — And he put his hand back into his bosom; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh. —
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
35	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	39	discourse	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
40	again	again	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
46	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put back** | infinitive |  | thy hand |  | thy bosom |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 3 | **put back** | past | lord | lord's hand |  | lord's bosom |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 4 | **take** | past | lord | hand |  |  |  | of lord's bosom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme of bosom=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **turn** | past · passive |  | it |  |  | again | as lord's other flesh | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **bosom** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **bosom** |  | lord |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **bosom** |  | lord |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state 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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וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הָשֵׁ֤ב יָֽדְךָ֙ אֶל־חֵיקֶ֔ךָ וַיָּ֥שֶׁב יָד֖וֹ אֶל־חֵיק֑וֹ וַיּֽוֹצִאָהּ֙ מֵֽחֵיק֔וֹ וְהִנֵּה־שָׁ֖בָה כִּבְשָׂרֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 4:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.7/)

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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:85` 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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