--- title: Exodus 36:5 (JPS 1917) — And they spoke unto Moses, saying: 'The people bring much more than… · tree and pragmatics description: And they spoke unto Moses, saying: 'The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.' Who acts: wisdom, people, LORD. 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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 (wisdom, people, LORD), 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:1087 # text = And they spoke unto Moses, saying: 'The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 13 much much ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 obj _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | wisdom | | | | | unto Moses | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | wisdom *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **bring** | present | the people | | | | | for the service of the work | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent more=Theme | | 4 | **command** | past | the LORD | the service of the work | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **service** | | | the work | | | | | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיֹּאמְרוּ֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֣ה לֵּאמֹ֔ר מַרְבִּ֥ים הָעָ֖ם לְהָבִ֑יא מִדֵּ֤י הָֽעֲבֹדָה֙ לַמְּלָאכָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה לַעֲשֹׂ֥ת אֹתָֽהּ׃ [Exodus 36:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1087` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 36:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1086/) - next →: [Exodus 36:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1088/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 36:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.5/)