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title: Exodus 11:2 — Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of h… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.' Who acts: you, people. Exodus 11:2 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 11:2 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** speak, let, ask · **To what, where:** ears, people, man · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Exodus 11:2 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — you, people — and what happens in the verse to ears, people, man, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 40 chapters of Exodus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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דַּבֶּר־נָ֖א בְּאָזְנֵ֣י הָעָ֑ם וְיִשְׁאֲל֞וּ אִ֣ישׁ ׀ מֵאֵ֣ת רֵעֵ֗הוּ וְאִשָּׁה֙ מֵאֵ֣ת רְעוּתָ֔הּ כְּלֵי־כֶ֖סֶף וּכְלֵ֥י זָהָֽב׃

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[Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.301/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:EXO:275
# text = דַּבֶּר־נָ֖א בְּאָזְנֵ֣י הָעָ֑ם וְיִשְׁאֲל֞וּ אִ֣ישׁ ׀ מֵאֵ֣ת רֵעֵ֗הוּ וְאִשָּׁה֙ מֵאֵ֣ת רְעוּתָ֔הּ כְּלֵי־כֶ֖סֶף וּכְלֵ֥י זָהָֽב׃
# verse = EXO.11.2
1	דַּבֶּר־	דָבַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=2	0	root	_	Gloss=speak|Ref=EXO_11:2!1|MId=o020110020011|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:020110010041;|Type=imperative|SpaceAfter=No
2	נָ֖א	נָא	INTJ	_	_	1	discourse	_	Gloss=please|Ref=EXO_11:2!2|MId=o020110020021|Strong=4994|Type=exhortation
3-4	בְּאָזְנֵ֣י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=EXO_11:2!3|MId=o020110020031|Strong=0871a
4	אָזְנֵ֣י	אֹזֶן	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Dual	1	obl	_	Gloss=the.ears|Ref=EXO_11:2!3|MId=o020110020032|Strong=0241
5-6	הָעָ֑ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	6	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=EXO_11:2!4|MId=o020110020041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
6	עָ֑ם	עַם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.people|Ref=EXO_11:2!4|MId=o020110020042|Strong=5971
7-8	וְיִשְׁאֲל֞וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	8	cc	_	Gloss=so|Ref=EXO_11:2!5|MId=o020110020051|Strong=2050b
8	יִשְׁאֲל֞וּ	שָׁאַל	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	1	conj	_	Gloss=that.they.may.ask|Ref=EXO_11:2!5|MId=o020110020052|Strong=7592|Frame=A0:020110020042;A1:020110020121;020110020142;|Type=jussive
9	אִ֣ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Gloss=everyone.[masc]|Ref=EXO_11:2!6|MId=o020110020061|Strong=0376
10	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	Ref=EXO_11:2!6
11-12	מֵאֵ֣ת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=EXO_11:2!7|MId=o020110020071|Strong=4480
12	אֵ֣ת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	Gloss=with|Ref=EXO_11:2!7|MId=o020110020072|Strong=0854
13-14	רֵעֵ֗הוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	רֵע	רֵעַ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Gloss=[masc]|Ref=EXO_11:2!8|MId=o020110020081|Strong=7453
14	ֵ֗הוּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his.neighbor|Ref=EXO_11:2!8|MId=o020110020082|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal
15-16	וְאִשָּׁה֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	16	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_11:2!9|MId=o020110020091|Strong=2050b
16	אִשָּׁה֙	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Gloss=everyone.[fem]|Ref=EXO_11:2!9|MId=o020110020092|Strong=0802
17-18	מֵאֵ֣ת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=EXO_11:2!10|MId=o020110020101|Strong=4480
18	אֵ֣ת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=with|Ref=EXO_11:2!10|MId=o020110020102|Strong=0854
19-20	רְעוּתָ֔הּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	רְעוּת	רְעוּת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Gloss=[fem]|Ref=EXO_11:2!11|MId=o020110020111|Strong=7468
20	ָ֔הּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=her.neighbor|Ref=EXO_11:2!11|MId=o020110020112|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal
21	כְּלֵי־	כְּלִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Gloss=articles|Ref=EXO_11:2!12|MId=o020110020121|Strong=3627|SpaceAfter=No
22	כֶ֖סֶף	כֶּסֶף	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	21	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.silver|Ref=EXO_11:2!13|MId=o020110020131|Strong=3701
23-24	וּכְלֵ֥י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
23	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	24	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_11:2!14|MId=o020110020141|Strong=2050b
24	כְלֵ֥י	כְּלִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	21	conj	_	Gloss=articles|Ref=EXO_11:2!14|MId=o020110020142|Strong=3627
25	זָהָֽב	זָהָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	24	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.gold|Ref=EXO_11:2!15|MId=o020110020151|Strong=2091|SpaceAfter=No
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	25	punct	_	Ref=EXO_11:2!15
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no
- hedged: yes (נָא)

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| דַּבֶּר־ *speak* | imperative · piel |  |  |  |  |
| יִשְׁאֲלוּ *that they may ask* | jussive · qal | עָם *the people* | כְּלֵי־ *articles* + כְלֵי *articles* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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מַלֵיל כְּעַן קֳדָם עַמָא וּשְׁאִילוּ גְבַר מִן חַבְרֵהּ וְאִתְּתָא מִן חַבְרָתַהּ מָנִין דִכְסַף וּמָנִין דִדְהָב:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.301/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:EXO:275`.

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