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title: Exodus 30:23 (JPS 1917) — 'Take thou also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myrrh five hu… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Take thou also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty, Who acts: thou. Exodus 30:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 30:23 · JPS 1917

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'Take thou also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty,

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** take, flow · **To what, where:** chief spices

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This is Exodus 30:23 · 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), 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:911
# text = 'Take thou also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty,
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Take	take	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	also	also	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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	amod	_	_
13	myrrh	myrrh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	shekels	shekel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cinnamon	cinnamon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	half	half	DET	PDT	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	_	21	amod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	_
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	calamus	calamus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	compound	_	_
37	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	appos	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive | thou | the chief spices of flowing myrrh  hundred shekels and sweet cinnamon and sweet calamus |  |  |  | unto thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spice=Theme |
| 2 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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וְאַתָּ֣ה קַח־לְךָ֮ בְּשָׂמִ֣ים רֹאשׁ֒ מָר־דְּרוֹר֙ חֲמֵ֣שׁ מֵא֔וֹת וְקִנְּמָן־בֶּ֥שֶׂם מַחֲצִית֖וֹ חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים וּמָאתָ֑יִם וּקְנֵה־בֹ֖שֶׂם חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּמָאתָֽיִם׃

[Exodus 30:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.23/)

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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:911` 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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