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title: Exodus 5:13 (JPS 1917) — And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your dai… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.' Who acts: taskmasters, straw, your. Exodus 5:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 5:13 · JPS 1917

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And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.'

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**Who acts:** taskmasters, straw, your · **What happens:** be, say, fulfil, work, task · **To what, where:** work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 5:13 · 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 (taskmasters, straw, your), 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:129
# text = And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	taskmasters	taskmaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
22	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the taskmasters |  |  |  |  | urgent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the taskmasters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fulfil** | infinitive |  | your work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | past | straw |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **work** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **task** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְהַנֹּגְשִׂ֖ים אָצִ֣ים לֵאמֹ֑ר כַּלּ֤וּ מַעֲשֵׂיכֶם֙ דְּבַר־י֣וֹם בְּיוֹמ֔וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר בִּהְי֥וֹת הַתֶּֽבֶן׃

[Exodus 5:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.13/)

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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:129` 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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