--- title: Exodus 17:4 — And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'What shall I do unto this pe… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me.' Who acts: Moses, I, people. Exodus 17:4 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.17.4/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/17/) / 17:4 # Exodus 17:4 שְׁמוֹת **Who acts:** Moses, I, people · **What happens:** cry, say, do, be, stone · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Exodus 17:4 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 — Moses, I, people — and what happens in the verse to me, 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. וַיִּצְעַ֤ק מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֣ה לֵאמֹ֔ר מָ֥ה אֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה לָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה ע֥וֹד מְעַ֖ט וּסְקָלֻֽנִי׃ [And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.488/) ## 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:454 # text = וַיִּצְעַ֤ק מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֣ה לֵאמֹ֔ר מָ֥ה אֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה לָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה ע֥וֹד מְעַ֖ט וּסְקָלֻֽנִי׃ # verse = EXO.17.4 1-2 וַיִּצְעַ֤ק _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_17:4!1|MId=o020170040011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּצְעַ֤ק צָעַק VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.cried.out|Ref=EXO_17:4!1|MId=o020170040012|Strong=6817|Frame=A0:020170040021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 מֹשֶׁה֙ מֹשֶׁה PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Moses|Ref=EXO_17:4!2|MId=o020170040021|Strong=4872 4 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_17:4!3|MId=o020170040031|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 5 יְהוָ֣ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=EXO_17:4!4|MId=o020170040041|Strong=3068 6-7 לֵאמֹ֔ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 9 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=EXO_17:4!5|MId=o020170040051|Strong=3807a 7 אמֹ֔ר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 6 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=EXO_17:4!5|MId=o020170040052|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:020170040021;|Type=infinitive_construct 8 מָ֥ה מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 9 obj _ Gloss=what?|Ref=EXO_17:4!6|MId=o020170040061|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative 9 אֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 2 advcl _ Gloss=will.I.do|Ref=EXO_17:4!7|MId=o020170040071|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:020170040021;A1:020170040061;|Type=yiqtol 10-12 לָעָ֣ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_17:4!8|MId=o020170040081|Strong=3807a 11 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=EXO_17:4!8|MId=o020170040081ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 עָ֣ם עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=people|Ref=EXO_17:4!8|MId=o020170040082|Strong=5971 13-14 הַזֶּ֑ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=EXO_17:4!9|MId=o020170040091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 זֶּ֑ה זֶה DET _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=EXO_17:4!9|MId=o020170040092|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative 15 ע֥וֹד עוֹד ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=yet|Ref=EXO_17:4!10|MId=o020170040101|Strong=5750 16 מְעַ֖ט מְעַט ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Gloss=a.little|Ref=EXO_17:4!11|MId=o020170040111|Strong=4592 17-19 וּסְקָלֻֽנִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_17:4!12|MId=o020170040121|Strong=2050b 18 סְקָלֻֽ סָקַל VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they|Ref=EXO_17:4!12|MId=o020170040122|Strong=5619|Frame=A0:020170040083;A1:020170040123;|Type=weqatal 19 נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ Gloss=will.stone.me|Ref=EXO_17:4!12|MId=o020170040123|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=EXO_17:4!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּצְעַק *he cried out* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* | | | | | אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* | | | | | אֶעֱשֶׂה *will I do* | yiqtol · qal | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* | מָה *what?* | | | | סְקָלֻֽ *they* | weqatal · qal | | נִי *will stone me* | | | 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} וְצַלִי משֶׁה קֳדָם יְיָ לְמֵימַר מָא אֶעְבֵּד לְעַמָא הָדֵין עוֹד זְעֵיר פּוֹן וְיִרְגְמֻנִי: 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. [And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.488/) **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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