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title: Exodus 5:18 (JPS 1917) — Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, y… · tree and pragmatics
description: Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.' Who acts: you, ye, bricks. Exodus 5:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 5:18 · JPS 1917

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Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.'

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**Who acts:** you, ye, bricks · **What happens:** go, work, give, deliver, tell · **To what, where:** straw, you, tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 5:18 · 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 (you, ye, bricks), 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:134
# text = Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.'
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | therefore *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | shall · passive |  | no straw | you | there |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Theme |
| 4 | **deliver** | shall | ye | the tale of bricks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient |
| 5 | **tell** |  | bricks |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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וְעַתָּה֙ לְכ֣וּ עִבְד֔וּ וְתֶ֖בֶן לֹא־יִנָּתֵ֣ן לָכֶ֑ם וְתֹ֥כֶן לְבֵנִ֖ים תִּתֵּֽנּוּ׃

[Exodus 5:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.18/)

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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:134` 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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