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title: Exodus 32:3 — And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ea… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. Who acts: people, golden rings. Exodus 32:3 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 32:3 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** people, golden rings · **What happens:** break off, be, bring · **To what, where:** golden rings, ears, people

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This is Exodus 32:3 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 — people, golden rings — and what happens in the verse to golden rings, ears, 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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וַיִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ֙ כָּל־הָעָ֔ם אֶת־נִזְמֵ֥י הַזָּהָ֖ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּאָזְנֵיהֶ֑ם וַיָּבִ֖יאוּ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹֽן׃

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[And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.947/)

## 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:908
# text = וַיִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ֙ כָּל־הָעָ֔ם אֶת־נִזְמֵ֥י הַזָּהָ֖ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּאָזְנֵיהֶ֑ם וַיָּבִ֖יאוּ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹֽן׃
# verse = EXO.32.3
1-2	וַיִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_32:3!1|MId=o020320030011|Strong=2050b
2	יִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ֙	פָּרַק	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.tore.off.from.themselves|Ref=EXO_32:3!1|MId=o020320030012|Strong=6561|Frame=A0:020320030032;A1:020320030051;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=all|Ref=EXO_32:3!2|MId=o020320030021|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
4-5	הָעָ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	5	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=EXO_32:3!3|MId=o020320030031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
5	עָ֔ם	עַם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=people|Ref=EXO_32:3!3|MId=o020320030032|Strong=5971
6	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=EXO_32:3!4|MId=o020320030041|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
7	נִזְמֵ֥י	נֶזֶם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	2	obj	_	Gloss=the.rings|Ref=EXO_32:3!5|MId=o020320030051|Strong=5141
8-9	הַזָּהָ֖ב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	9	det	_	Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=EXO_32:3!6|MId=o020320030061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
9	זָּהָ֖ב	זָהָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=gold|Ref=EXO_32:3!6|MId=o020320030062|Strong=2091
10	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	12	mark	_	Gloss=which|Ref=EXO_32:3!7|MId=o020320030071|Strong=0834|Type=relative
11-13	בְּאָזְנֵיהֶ֑ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	12	case	_	Gloss=[were].on|Ref=EXO_32:3!8|MId=o020320030081|Strong=0871a
12	אָזְנֵי	אֹזֶן	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Dual	7	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=ears|Ref=EXO_32:3!8|MId=o020320030082|Strong=0241
13	הֶ֑ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=EXO_32:3!8|MId=o020320030083|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
14-15	וַיָּבִ֖יאוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	15	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_32:3!9|MId=o020320030091|Strong=2050b
15	יָּבִ֖יאוּ	בּוֹא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=they.brought.[them]|Ref=EXO_32:3!9|MId=o020320030092|Strong=0935|Frame=AA:020320030032;A0:020320030051;|Type=wayyiqtol
16	אֶֽל־	אֶל	ADP	_	_	17	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_32:3!10|MId=o020320030101|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No
17	אַהֲרֹֽן	אַהֲרֹן	PROPN	_	_	15	obl	_	Gloss=Aaron|Ref=EXO_32:3!11|MId=o020320030111|Strong=0175|SpaceAfter=No
18	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	17	punct	_	Ref=EXO_32:3!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ *they tore off from themselves* | wayyiqtol · hithpael | עָם *people* | נִזְמֵי *the rings* |  |  |
| יָּבִיאוּ *they brought \[them\]* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | נִזְמֵי *the rings* |  |  | עָם *people* |

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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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וְאִתְפְּרִיקוּ כָּל עַמָא יָת קָדָשֵׁי דְדַהֲבָא דִי בְאוּדְנֵיהוֹן וְאַיְתִיוּ לְאַהֲרֹן:

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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 all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.947/)

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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:908`.

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