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title: Exodus 30:31 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: This shall… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: This shall be a holy anointing oil unto Me throughout your generations. Who acts: thou, This. Exodus 30:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 30:31 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: This shall be a holy anointing oil unto Me throughout your generations.

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**Who acts:** thou, This · **What happens:** speak, say, be · **To what, where:** holy anointing oil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 30:31 · 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, This), 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:919
# text = And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: This shall be a holy anointing oil unto Me throughout your generations.
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	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	anointing	anoint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | unto the children of Israel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | This | a holy anointing oil |  |  | throughout your generations | 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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וְאֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל תְּדַבֵּ֣ר לֵאמֹ֑ר שֶׁ֠מֶן מִשְׁחַת־קֹ֨דֶשׁ יִהְיֶ֥ה זֶ֛ה לִ֖י לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

[Exodus 30:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.31/)

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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:919` 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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