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title: Exodus 32:21 — And Moses said unto Aaron: 'What did this people unto thee, that tho… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And Moses said unto Aaron: 'What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them?' Who acts: Moses, people, thou. Exodus 32:21 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 32:21 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** Moses, people, thou · **What happens:** say, do, bring · **To what, where:** great sin · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Exodus 32:21 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, people, thou — and what happens in the verse to great sin, 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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֔ן מֶֽה־עָשָׂ֥ה לְךָ֖ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּֽי־הֵבֵ֥אתָ עָלָ֖יו חֲטָאָ֥ה גְדֹלָֽה׃

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[And Moses said unto Aaron: 'What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.966/)

## 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:926
# text = וַיֹּ֤אמֶר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֔ן מֶֽה־עָשָׂ֥ה לְךָ֖ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּֽי־הֵבֵ֥אתָ עָלָ֖יו חֲטָאָ֥ה גְדֹלָֽה׃
# verse = EXO.32.21
1-2	וַיֹּ֤אמֶר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_32:21!1|MId=o020320210011|Strong=2050b
2	יֹּ֤אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.said|Ref=EXO_32:21!1|MId=o020320210012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:020320210021;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	מֹשֶׁה֙	מֹשֶׁה	PROPN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=Moses|Ref=EXO_32:21!2|MId=o020320210021|Strong=4872
4	אֶֽל־	אֶל	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_32:21!3|MId=o020320210031|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No
5	אַהֲרֹ֔ן	אַהֲרֹן	PROPN	_	_	2	obl	_	Gloss=Aaron|Ref=EXO_32:21!4|MId=o020320210041|Strong=0175
6	מֶֽה־	מָה	PRON	_	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	Gloss=what?|Ref=EXO_32:21!5|MId=o020320210051|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative|SpaceAfter=No
7	עָשָׂ֥ה	עָשָׂה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	ccomp	_	Gloss=did.it.do|Ref=EXO_32:21!6|MId=o020320210061|Strong=6213|Frame=A1:020320210051;A0:020320210082;|Type=qatal
8-9	לְךָ֖	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_32:21!7|MId=o020320210071|Strong=3807a
9	ְךָ֖	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	Gloss=you|Ref=EXO_32:21!7|MId=o020320210072|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal
10-11	הָעָ֣ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	11	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=EXO_32:21!8|MId=o020320210081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
11	עָ֣ם	עַם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Gloss=people|Ref=EXO_32:21!8|MId=o020320210082|Strong=5971
12-13	הַזֶּ֑ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	13	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=EXO_32:21!9|MId=o020320210091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
13	זֶּ֑ה	זֶה	DET	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	Gloss=this|Ref=EXO_32:21!9|MId=o020320210092|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative
14	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	15	mark	_	Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=EXO_32:21!10|MId=o020320210101|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No
15	הֵבֵ֥אתָ	בּוֹא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2	7	parataxis	_	Gloss=you.have.brought|Ref=EXO_32:21!11|MId=o020320210111|Strong=0935|Frame=AA:020320210041;A0:020320210131;|Type=qatal
16-17	עָלָ֖יו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	עָלָ֖י	עַל	ADP	_	_	17	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=EXO_32:21!12|MId=o020320210121|Strong=5921
17	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	Gloss=it|Ref=EXO_32:21!12|MId=o020320210122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
18	חֲטָאָ֥ה	חֲטָאָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Gloss=a.sin|Ref=EXO_32:21!13|MId=o020320210131|Strong=2401
19	גְדֹלָֽה	גָּדוֹל	ADJ	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	18	amod	_	Gloss=great|Ref=EXO_32:21!14|MId=o020320210141|Strong=1419|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	19	punct	_	Ref=EXO_32:21!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: no
- the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* |  |  |  |
| עָשָׂה *did it do* | qatal · qal | עָם *people* | מֶֽה־ *what?* |  |  |
| הֵבֵאתָ *you have brought* | qatal · hiphil | חֲטָאָה *a sin* |  |  | אַהֲרֹן *Aaron* |

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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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וַאֲמַר משֶׁה לְאַהֲרֹן מָא עֲבַד לָךְ עַמָא הָדֵין אֲרֵי אַיְתֵיתָא עֲלוֹהִי חוֹבָא רַבָּא:

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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 Moses said unto Aaron: 'What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.966/)

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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:926`.

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