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title: Exodus 29:1 (JPS 1917) — And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto Me in the priest's office: take one young bullock and two rams without blemish, Who acts: this, thou. Exodus 29:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 29:1 · JPS 1917

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And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto Me in the priest's office: take one young bullock and two rams without blemish,

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**Who acts:** this, thou · **What happens:** be, do, hallow, minister, take · **To what, where:** thing, them, office, one young bullock

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This is Exodus 29:1 · 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 (this, thou), 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:842
# text = And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto Me in the priest's office: take one young bullock and two rams without blemish,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hallow	hallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	minister	minister	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	without	without	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | the thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | shall | thou | the thing |  |  |  | unto them *= they* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hallow** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **minister** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  | the priest's office |  | unto Me | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive |  | one young bullock and two rams |  |  |  | without blemish | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme |

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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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וְזֶ֨ה הַדָּבָ֜ר אֲשֶֽׁר־תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לָהֶ֛ם לְקַדֵּ֥שׁ אֹתָ֖ם לְכַהֵ֣ן לִ֑י לְ֠קַח פַּ֣ר אֶחָ֧ד בֶּן־בָּקָ֛ר וְאֵילִ֥ם שְׁנַ֖יִם תְּמִימִֽם׃

[Exodus 29:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.1/)

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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:842` 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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