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title: Exodus 30:30 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's office. Who acts: thou, vessels. Exodus 30:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 30:30 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's office.

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**Who acts:** thou, vessels · **What happens:** anoint, sanctify, minister · **To what, where:** Aaron, vessels, office

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This is Exodus 30:30 · 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, vessels), 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:918
# text = And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's office.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	anoint	anoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sanctify	sanctify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	minister	minister	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	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	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anoint** | shall | thou | Aaron and Aaron's sons |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent aaron=Result |
| 2 | **sanctify** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | vessels *= vessel* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **minister** | may | vessels *= vessel* |  |  | 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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וְאֶת־אַהֲרֹ֥ן וְאֶת־בָּנָ֖יו תִּמְשָׁ֑ח וְקִדַּשְׁתָּ֥ אֹתָ֖ם לְכַהֵ֥ן לִֽי׃

[Exodus 30:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.30/)

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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:918` 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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