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title: Exodus 11:2 (JPS 1917) — Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.' Who acts: you, people. Exodus 11:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 11:2 · JPS 1917

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Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.'

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** speak, let, ask · **To what, where:** ears, people, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 11:2 · 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, people), 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:301
# text = Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.'
1	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
36	'	'	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the ears of the people | now |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | people *not said here* |  | every man of LORD's neighbour and every woman of woman's neighbour |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |

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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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דַּבֶּר־נָ֖א בְּאָזְנֵ֣י הָעָ֑ם וְיִשְׁאֲל֞וּ אִ֣ישׁ ׀ מֵאֵ֣ת רֵעֵ֗הוּ וְאִשָּׁה֙ מֵאֵ֣ת רְעוּתָ֔הּ כְּלֵי־כֶ֖סֶף וּכְלֵ֥י זָהָֽב׃

[Exodus 11:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.11.2/)

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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:301` 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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