--- title: Exodus 18:21 (JPS 1917) — Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as… · tree and pragmatics description: Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. Who acts: thou, able men, men. 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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 (thou, able men, men), 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:521 # text = Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 1 Moreover moreover ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shalt shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 provide provide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 15 mark _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 hating hate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 acl _ _ 23 unjust unjust ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 gain gain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 place place VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 28 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obj _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 advcl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 fifties fifty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **provide** | shall | thou | able men | | | | out all people; moreover *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition man=Theme | | 2 | **fear** | present | able men *not said here* | God | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus | | 3 | **hate** | gerund | men of truth *not said here* | unjust gain | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gain=Stimulus | | 4 | **place** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | such | | | | over man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent such=Theme over they=Destination | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | rulers and rulers of hundreds and rulers of fifties and rulers of tens | | | | of thousands | tree rules | 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} וְאַתָּ֣ה תֶחֱזֶ֣ה מִכָּל־הָ֠עָם אַנְשֵׁי־חַ֜יִל יִרְאֵ֧י אֱלֹהִ֛ים אַנְשֵׁ֥י אֱמֶ֖ת שֹׂ֣נְאֵי בָ֑צַע וְשַׂמְתָּ֣ עֲלֵהֶ֗ם שָׂרֵ֤י אֲלָפִים֙ שָׂרֵ֣י מֵא֔וֹת שָׂרֵ֥י חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים וְשָׂרֵ֥י עֲשָׂרֹֽת׃ [Exodus 18:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.18.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:521` 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 18:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.520/) - next →: [Exodus 18:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.522/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 18:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.18.21/)