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title: Exodus 16:18 (JPS 1917) — And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had no… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. Who acts: children, Israel. Exodus 16:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 16:18 · JPS 1917

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And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

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**Who acts:** children, Israel · **What happens:** mete, gather, have over, have, accord, eat · **To what, where:** more, nothing, lack, man

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This is Exodus 16:18 · 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 (children, Israel), 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:465
# text = And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	mete	mete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	omer	omer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	obj	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	little	little	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	case	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **mete** | past · do-support | children *= child* | more |  |  |  | with a omer | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have over** | past | Israel | nothing |  |  |  | over *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **gather** | past |  |  |  |  |  | little *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | Israel | no lack |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lack=Patient |
| 6 | **gather** | past | children *= child* | every man |  |  |  | accord Israel's eating | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **eat** |  | Israel |  |  |  |  |  | nom eating «act intransitive»: 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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וַיָּמֹ֣דּוּ בָעֹ֔מֶר וְלֹ֤א הֶעְדִּיף֙ הַמַּרְבֶּ֔ה וְהַמַּמְעִ֖יט לֹ֣א הֶחְסִ֑יר אִ֥ישׁ לְפִֽי־אָכְל֖וֹ לָקָֽטוּ׃

[Exodus 16:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.18/)

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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:465` 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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