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title: Exodus 40:32 (JPS 1917) — when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unt… · tree and pragmatics
description: when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the altar, they should wash; as the LORD commanded Moses. Who acts: hands, LORD. Exodus 40:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 40:32 · JPS 1917

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when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the altar, they should wash; as the LORD commanded Moses.

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**Who acts:** hands, LORD · **What happens:** go, come, wash, command · **To what, where:** tent, Moses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 40:32 · 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 (hands, 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:1259
# text = when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the altar, they should wash; as the LORD commanded Moses.
1	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
14	near	near	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **go** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  | the tent of meeting |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tent=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | unto the altar; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wash** | should | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **command** | past | the LORD | Moses |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=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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בְּבֹאָ֞ם אֶל־אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֗ד וּבְקָרְבָתָ֛ם אֶל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ יִרְחָ֑צוּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃ס

[Exodus 40:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.32/)

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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:1259` 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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