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title: Exodus 19:11 — and be ready against the third day; for the third day the LORD will… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: and be ready against the third day; for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. Who acts: you, LORD. Exodus 19:11 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 19:11 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** you, LORD · **What happens:** be, come down, sight · **To what, where:** sight, people

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This is Exodus 19:11 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, LORD — and what happens in the verse to sight, people, 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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וְהָי֥וּ נְכֹנִ֖ים לַיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י כִּ֣י ׀ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֗י יֵרֵ֧ד יְהוָ֛ה לְעֵינֵ֥י כָל־הָעָ֖ם עַל־הַ֥ר סִינָֽי׃

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[and be ready against the third day; for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.539/)

## 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:504
# text = וְהָי֥וּ נְכֹנִ֖ים לַיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י כִּ֣י ׀ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֗י יֵרֵ֧ד יְהוָ֛ה לְעֵינֵ֥י כָל־הָעָ֖ם עַל־הַ֥ר סִינָֽי׃
# verse = EXO.19.11
1-2	וְהָי֥וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_19:11!1|MId=o020190110011|Strong=2050b
2	הָי֥וּ	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	3	cop	_	Gloss=they.will.be|Ref=EXO_19:11!1|MId=o020190110012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:020190100072;|Type=weqatal
3	נְכֹנִ֖ים	כּוּן	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur	0	root	_	Gloss=prepared|Ref=EXO_19:11!2|MId=o020190110021|Strong=3559|Frame=A0:020190100072;|Type=participle_active
4-6	לַיּ֣וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=for|Ref=EXO_19:11!3|MId=o020190110031|Strong=3807a
5	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	6	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=EXO_19:11!3|MId=o020190110031ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
6	יּ֣וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Gloss=day|Ref=EXO_19:11!3|MId=o020190110032|Strong=3117
7-8	הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	8	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=EXO_19:11!4|MId=o020190110041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
8	שְּׁלִישִׁ֑י	שְׁלִישִׁי	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	nummod	_	Gloss=third|Ref=EXO_19:11!4|MId=o020190110042|Strong=7992|Type=ordinal_number
9	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	16	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=EXO_19:11!5|MId=o020190110051|Strong=3588
10	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	Ref=EXO_19:11!5
11-13	בַּיּ֣וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=EXO_19:11!6|MId=o020190110061|Strong=0871a
12	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	13	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=EXO_19:11!6|MId=o020190110061ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
13	יּ֣וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Gloss=day|Ref=EXO_19:11!6|MId=o020190110062|Strong=3117
14-15	הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֗י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	15	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=EXO_19:11!7|MId=o020190110071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
15	שְּׁלִישִׁ֗י	שְׁלִישִׁי	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	13	nummod	_	Gloss=third|Ref=EXO_19:11!7|MId=o020190110072|Strong=7992|Type=ordinal_number
16	יֵרֵ֧ד	יָרַד	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	advcl	_	Gloss=he.will.come.down|Ref=EXO_19:11!8|MId=o020190110081|Strong=3381|Frame=A0:020190110091;|Type=yiqtol
17	יְהוָ֛ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	16	nsubj	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=EXO_19:11!9|MId=o020190110091|Strong=3068
18-19	לְעֵינֵ֥י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_19:11!10|MId=o020190110101|Strong=3807a
19	עֵינֵ֥י	עַיִן	NOUN	_	Number=Dual	16	obl	_	Gloss=the.eyes|Ref=EXO_19:11!10|MId=o020190110102|Strong=5869
20	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	19	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.all|Ref=EXO_19:11!11|MId=o020190110111|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
21-22	הָעָ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
21	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	22	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=EXO_19:11!12|MId=o020190110121|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
22	עָ֖ם	עַם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	20	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=people|Ref=EXO_19:11!12|MId=o020190110122|Strong=5971
23	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	_	24	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=EXO_19:11!13|MId=o020190110131|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No
24	הַ֥ר	הַר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Gloss=the.mountain|Ref=EXO_19:11!14|MId=o020190110141|Strong=2022
25	סִינָֽי	סִינַי	PROPN	_	_	24	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Sinai|Ref=EXO_19:11!15|MId=o020190110151|Strong=5514|SpaceAfter=No
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	25	punct	_	Ref=EXO_19:11!15
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| הָיוּ *they will be* | weqatal · qal |  |  |  |  |
| נְכֹנִים *prepared* | participle active · niphal |  |  |  |  |
| יֵרֵד *he will come down* | yiqtol · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* |  |  |  |

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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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וִיהוֹן זְמִינִין לְיוֹמָא תְלִיתָאָה אֲרֵי בְּיוֹמָא תְלִיתָאָה יִתְגְלִי יְיָ לְעֵינֵי כָל עַמָא עַל טוּרָא דְסִינָי:

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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. [and be ready against the third day; for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.539/)

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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:504`.

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