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title: Exodus 28:1 (JPS 1917) — And bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with h… · tree and pragmatics
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# Exodus 28:1 · JPS 1917

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And bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.

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**Who acts:** thou, Aaron · **What happens:** bring, minister · **To what, where:** Aaron, office

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This is Exodus 28:1 · 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 (thou, Aaron), 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:799
# text = And bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	near	near	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obl	_	_
7	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	minister	minister	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
28	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Nadab	Nadab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Abihu	Abihu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	Eleazar	Eleazar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	Ithamar	Ithamar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	's	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	appos	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **bring** | infinitive | thou | Aaron and his sons with him |  |  |  | unto thee; from the children of Israel; near *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent aaron=Theme from child=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **minister** | may | Aaron |  |  | the priest's office |  | unto Me | tree rules |

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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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וְאַתָּ֡ה הַקְרֵ֣ב אֵלֶיךָ֩ אֶת־אַהֲרֹ֨ן אָחִ֜יךָ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֣יו אִתּ֔וֹ מִתּ֛וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְכַהֲנוֹ־לִ֑י אַהֲרֹ֕ן נָדָ֧ב וַאֲבִיה֛וּא אֶלְעָזָ֥ר וְאִיתָמָ֖ר בְּנֵ֥י אַהֲרֹֽן׃

[Exodus 28:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.1/)

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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:799` 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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