--- title: Exodus 3:18 (JPS 1917) — And now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilder… · tree and pragmatics description: And now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. Who acts: you, us, we, three days. 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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 (you, us, we, three days), 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:72 # text = And now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 ' 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 sacrifice sacrifice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* | three days's journey into the wilderness | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pray** | present | we | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sacrifice** | may | we | | the LORD | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lord=Recipient | | 5 | **journey** | | three days | | | the wilderness | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent into=place | 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} וְשָׁמְע֖וּ לְקֹלֶ֑ךָ וּבָאתָ֡ אַתָּה֩ וְזִקְנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶל־מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרַ֗יִם וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֤ם אֵלָיו֙ יְהוָ֞ה אֱלֹהֵ֤י הָֽעִבְרִיִּים֙ נִקְרָ֣ה עָלֵ֔ינוּ וְעַתָּ֗ה נֵֽלֲכָה־נָּ֞א דֶּ֣רֶךְ שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת יָמִים֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר וְנִזְבְּחָ֖ה לַֽיהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ [Exodus 3:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.3.18/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And they shall hearken to thy voice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.70/) 2. [And thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.71/) 3. **And now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:72` 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 3:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.71/) - next →: [Exodus 3:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.73/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 3:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.3.18/)