--- title: Exodus 4:30 (JPS 1917) — And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses,… · tree and pragmatics description: And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. Who acts: Aaron, 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 (Aaron, 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:112 # text = And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 unto unto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Aaron | all words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | the LORD | all words | | | | unto Moses | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | past | Aaron *not said here* | the signs | | the sight of the people | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Eventuality | | 4 | **sight** | | | the people | | | | | nom sight «cognition 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} וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר אַהֲרֹ֔ן אֵ֚ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הָאֹתֹ֖ת לְעֵינֵ֥י הָעָֽם׃ [Exodus 4:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.30/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:112` 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 4:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.111/) - next →: [Exodus 4:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.113/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 4:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.30/)