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title: Exodus 30:20 (JPS 1917) — when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to cause an offering made by fire to smoke unto the LORD; Who acts: hands, offering. Exodus 30:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Exodus 30:20 · JPS 1917

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when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to cause an offering made by fire to smoke unto the LORD;

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**Who acts:** hands, offering · **What happens:** go, wash, not die, come, minister, cause · **To what, where:** tent, altar, offering

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This is Exodus 30:20 · 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 (hands, offering), 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:908
# text = when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to cause an offering made by fire to smoke unto the LORD;
1	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	near	near	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	minister	minister	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:agent	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
41	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | hands *= hand* |  |  | the tent of meeting |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tent=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wash** | shall | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | with water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
| 3 | **not** **die** | present | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **come** | present | hands *= hand* |  |  | the altar |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to altar=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **minister** | to-infinitive | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cause** | to-infinitive | hands *= hand* *not said here* | a offering |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | participle |  | a offering *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 8 | **smoke** | to-infinitive | a offering *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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בְּבֹאָ֞ם אֶל־אֹ֧הֶל מוֹעֵ֛ד יִרְחֲצוּ־מַ֖יִם וְלֹ֣א יָמֻ֑תוּ א֣וֹ בְגִשְׁתָּ֤ם אֶל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ לְשָׁרֵ֔ת לְהַקְטִ֥יר אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַֽיהוָֽה׃

[Exodus 30:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.20/)

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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:908` 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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