--- title: Exodus 12:2 — 'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be t… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: 'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. Who acts: month, beginning. Exodus 12:2 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Exodus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/) / [chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/12/) / 12:2 # Exodus 12:2 שְׁמוֹת **Who acts:** month, beginning · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** beginning, first month, you This is Exodus 12:2 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 — month, beginning — and what happens in the verse to beginning, first month, you, 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. הַחֹ֧דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֛ה לָכֶ֖ם רֹ֣אשׁ חֳדָשִׁ֑ים רִאשׁ֥וֹן הוּא֙ לָכֶ֔ם לְחָדְשֵׁ֖י הַשָּׁנָֽה׃ ['This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.312/) ## The tree {#tree} 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:285 # text = הַחֹ֧דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֛ה לָכֶ֖ם רֹ֣אשׁ חֳדָשִׁ֑ים רִאשׁ֥וֹן הוּא֙ לָכֶ֔ם לְחָדְשֵׁ֖י הַשָּׁנָֽה׃ # verse = EXO.12.2 1-2 הַחֹ֧דֶשׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 2 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=EXO_12:2!1|MId=o020120020011|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 2 חֹ֧דֶשׁ חֹדֶשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Gloss=month|Ref=EXO_12:2!1|MId=o020120020012|Strong=2320 3-4 הַזֶּ֛ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=EXO_12:2!2|MId=o020120020021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 זֶּ֛ה זֶה DET _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=EXO_12:2!2|MId=o020120020022|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative 5-6 לָכֶ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 ל לְ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=EXO_12:2!3|MId=o020120020031|Strong=3807a 6 ָכֶ֖ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=EXO_12:2!3|MId=o020120020032|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal 7 רֹ֣אשׁ רֹאשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[will.be.the].beginning|Ref=EXO_12:2!4|MId=o020120020041|Strong=7218 8 חֳדָשִׁ֑ים חֹדֶשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.months|Ref=EXO_12:2!5|MId=o020120020051|Strong=2320 9 רִאשׁ֥וֹן רִאשׁוֹן ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Gloss=[will.be].first|Ref=EXO_12:2!6|MId=o020120020061|Strong=7223|Type=ordinal_number 10 הוּא֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ Gloss=it|Ref=EXO_12:2!7|MId=o020120020071|Strong=1931|Type=personal 11-12 לָכֶ֔ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 ל לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=EXO_12:2!8|MId=o020120020081|Strong=3807a 12 ָכֶ֔ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=EXO_12:2!8|MId=o020120020082|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal 13-14 לְחָדְשֵׁ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=EXO_12:2!9|MId=o020120020091|Strong=3807a 14 חָדְשֵׁ֖י חֹדֶשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 obl _ Gloss=the.months|Ref=EXO_12:2!9|MId=o020120020092|Strong=2320 15-16 הַשָּׁנָֽה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=EXO_12:2!10|MId=o020120020101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 16 שָּׁנָֽה שָׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 14 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.year|Ref=EXO_12:2!10|MId=o020120020102|Strong=8141 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=EXO_12:2!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no MACULA marks no verb frame in this verse. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} יַרְחָא הָדֵין לְכוֹן רֵישׁ יַרְחִין קַדְמַאי הוּא לְכוֹן לְיַרְחֵי שַׁתָּא: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} 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. 1. ['This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.312/) **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). 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