--- title: Exodus 5:17 (JPS 1917) — But he said: 'Ye are idle, ye are idle; therefore ye say: Let us go… · tree and pragmatics description: But he said: 'Ye are idle, ye are idle; therefore ye say: Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD. Who acts: Pharaoh, Ye, us. 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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 (Pharaoh, Ye, us), 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:133 # text = But he said: 'Ye are idle, ye are idle; therefore ye say: Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 idle idle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 idle idle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 19 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 sacrifice sacrifice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=express, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Pharaoh | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Ye | | | | | idle *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | ye | | | | | idle *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ye | | | | | therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sacrifice** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | the LORD | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lord=Recipient | 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} וַיֹּ֛אמֶר נִרְפִּ֥ים אַתֶּ֖ם נִרְפִּ֑ים עַל־כֵּן֙ אַתֶּ֣ם אֹֽמְרִ֔ים נֵלְכָ֖ה נִזְבְּחָ֥ה לַֽיהוָֽה׃ [Exodus 5:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:133` 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 5:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.132/) - next →: [Exodus 5:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.134/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 5:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.17/)