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title: Exodus 1:10 (JPS 1917) — come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come… · tree and pragmatics
description: come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.' Who acts: you, us, children, land. Exodus 1:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 
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# Exodus 1:10 · JPS 1917

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come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.'

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**Who acts:** you, us, children, land · **What happens:** come, let, deal, multiply, pass, befall · **To what, where:** us, war, children, land

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This is Exodus 1:10 · 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 (you, us, children, land), 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:9
# text = come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.'
1	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	wisely	wisely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	multiply	multiply	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	befalleth	befall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
39	against	against	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
46	out	out	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
51	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with children *= child*; wisely *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme |
| 4 | **multiply** | present | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | present | land |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pass** | to-infinitive | land *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **befall** | present | children *= child* *not said here* | any war | us | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **join** | present | children *= child* | children *= child* |  |  |  | unto our enemies | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 9 | **fight** | present | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against us | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **get up** | present | children *= child* *not said here* | children *= child* |  | the land |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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הָ֥בָה נִֽתְחַכְּמָ֖ה ל֑וֹ פֶּן־יִרְבֶּ֗ה וְהָיָ֞ה כִּֽי־תִקְרֶ֤אנָה מִלְחָמָה֙ וְנוֹסַ֤ף גַּם־הוּא֙ עַל־שֹׂ֣נְאֵ֔ינוּ וְנִלְחַם־בָּ֖נוּ וְעָלָ֥ה מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Exodus 1:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.10/)

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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:9` of Mova's parse database.

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