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title: Exodus 4:19 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian: 'Go, return into Egypt; for… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian: 'Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.' Who acts: LORD, men. Exodus 4:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 4:19 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian: 'Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, men · **What happens:** say, go, return, be, seek · **To what, where:** Midian, Egypt, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 4:19 · 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, men), 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:99
# text = And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian: 'Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Midian	Midian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  | Midian |  | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  | Egypt |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into egypt=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | all men |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **seek** | past | all men | thy life |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֤ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה֙ בְּמִדְיָ֔ן לֵ֖ךְ שֻׁ֣ב מִצְרָ֑יִם כִּי־מֵ֙תוּ֙ כָּל־הָ֣אֲנָשִׁ֔ים הַֽמְבַקְשִׁ֖ים אֶת־נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃

[Exodus 4:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.19/)

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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:99` 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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