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title: Exodus 34:16 (JPS 1917) — and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters… · tree and pragmatics
description: and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go astray after their gods, and make thy sons go astray after their gods. Who acts: thou, daughters, sons. Exodus 34:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 34:16 · JPS 1917

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and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go astray after their gods, and make thy sons go astray after their gods.

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**Who acts:** thou, daughters, sons · **What happens:** take, go, make · **To what, where:** sons

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This is Exodus 34:16 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, daughters, sons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:EXO:1022
# text = and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go astray after their gods, and make thy sons go astray after their gods.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	astray	astray	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	astray	astray	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | of inhabitants's daughters; unto thy sons | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of daughter=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | inhabitants's daughters |  |  |  | after inhabitants's gods | astray *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | inhabitants's daughters *not said here* | thy sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | thy sons *not said here* |  |  |  | after inhabitants's gods | astray *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ מִבְּנֹתָ֖יו לְבָנֶ֑יךָ וְזָנ֣וּ בְנֹתָ֗יו אַחֲרֵי֙ אֱלֹ֣הֵיהֶ֔ן וְהִזְנוּ֙ אֶת־בָּנֶ֔יךָ אַחֲרֵ֖י אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽן׃

[Exodus 34:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.16/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1022` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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