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title: Exodus 4:12 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.' Who acts: you, I, thou. Exodus 4:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 4:12 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.'

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**Who acts:** you, I, thou · **What happens:** go, be, teach, speak · **To what, where:** thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 4:12 · 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, I, thou), 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:90
# text = Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.'
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	teach	teach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	iobj	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
21	'	'	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 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | therefore *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | future | I |  |  |  |  | with thy mouth | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | thee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וְעַתָּ֖ה לֵ֑ךְ וְאָנֹכִי֙ אֶֽהְיֶ֣ה עִם־פִּ֔יךָ וְהוֹרֵיתִ֖יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר תְּדַבֵּֽר׃

[Exodus 4:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.12/)

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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:90` 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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