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title: Exodus 16:31 (JPS 1917) — And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna; and it was li… · tree and pragmatics
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# Exodus 16:31 · JPS 1917

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And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

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**Who acts:** house, taste · **What happens:** call, be, make, taste · **To what, where:** name, wafers, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 16:31 · 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 (house, taste), 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:479
# text = And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	Manna	Manna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	coriander	coriander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wafers	wafer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the house of Israel | the name |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | house |  |  |  |  | like coriander seed | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the taste of house |  |  |  |  | like wafers | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | wafers *not said here* |  |  |  | with honey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **taste** |  |  | house |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיִּקְרְא֧וּ בֵֽית־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ מָ֑ן וְה֗וּא כְּזֶ֤רַע גַּד֙ לָבָ֔ן וְטַעְמ֖וֹ כְּצַפִּיחִ֥ת בִּדְבָֽשׁ׃

[Exodus 16:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.31/)

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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:479` 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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