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title: Exodus 4:13 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'Oh Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: 'Oh Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send.' Who acts: lord, I, Thou. Exodus 4:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 4:13 · JPS 1917

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And he said: 'Oh Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send.'

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**Who acts:** lord, I, Thou · **What happens:** say, send, pray · **To what, where:** Thee, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 4:13 · 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, 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:91
# text = And he said: 'Oh Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send.'
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	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
21	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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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 | **send** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | Lord *vocative* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pray** | present | I | Thee |  |  |  | by the hand of lord | tree rules |
| 4 | **send** | future | Thou | the hand of lord |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |

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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 בִּ֣יּ אֲדֹנָ֑י שְֽׁלַֽח־נָ֖א בְּיַד־תִּשְׁלָֽח׃

[Exodus 4:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.13/)

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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:91` 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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