--- title: Exodus 20:20 (JPS 1917) — (20-17) And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear not; for God is come t… · tree and pragmatics description: (20-17) And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that His fear may be before you, that ye sin not.' Who acts: Moses, God, fear, ye. 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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 (Moses, God, fear, ye), 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:573 # text = (20-17) And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that His fear may be before you, that ye sin not.' 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 2 20-17 20-17 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 parataxis _ _ 3 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Fear fear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 25 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 29 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nsubj _ _ 34 sin sin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, indirect=0, hedge=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Moses | | | | | unto the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **fear** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **come** | present · passive | God | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **prove** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | you | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **is** | may | God's fear | | | | before you | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **sin** | present | ye | | | | | | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **fear** | | God | | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיֹּ֨אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֣ה אֶל־הָעָם֮ אַל־תִּירָאוּ֒ כִּ֗י לְבַֽעֲבוּר֙ נַסּ֣וֹת אֶתְכֶ֔ם בָּ֖א הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וּבַעֲב֗וּר תִּהְיֶ֧ה יִרְאָת֛וֹ עַל־פְּנֵיכֶ֖ם לְבִלְתִּ֥י תֶחֱטָֽאוּ׃ [Exodus 20:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.20.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:573` 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 20:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.572/) - next →: [Exodus 20:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.574/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 20:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.20.20/)