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title: Exodus 18:25 (JPS 1917) — And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. Who acts: Moses. Exodus 18:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 18:25 · JPS 1917

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And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

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**Who acts:** Moses · **What happens:** choose, make · **To what, where:** able men, Israel, man

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This is Exodus 18:25 · 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 (Moses), 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:525
# text = And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	xcomp	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fifties	fifty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **choose** | past | Moses | able men |  | all Israel |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | Moses *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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וַיִּבְחַ֨ר מֹשֶׁ֤ה אַנְשֵׁי־חַ֙יִל֙ מִכָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיִּתֵּ֥ן אֹתָ֛ם רָאשִׁ֖ים עַל־הָעָ֑ם שָׂרֵ֤י אֲלָפִים֙ שָׂרֵ֣י מֵא֔וֹת שָׂרֵ֥י חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים וְשָׂרֵ֥י עֲשָׂרֹֽת׃

[Exodus 18:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.18.25/)

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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:525` 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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