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title: Exodus 30:34 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight. Who acts: LORD, like weight. Exodus 30:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 30:34 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight.

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**Who acts:** LORD, like weight · **What happens:** say, take, be · **To what, where:** sweet spices · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 30:34 · 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 (LORD, like weight), 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:922
# text = And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obl	_	_
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	stacte	stacte	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	onycha	onycha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	galbanum	galbanum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	frankincense	frankincense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	obl	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | sweet spices and stacte and onycha and galbanum |  |  |  | unto thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spice=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | shall | a like weight |  |  | there |  | of each | vn exist-47.1 «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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וַיֹּאמֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֜ה קַח־לְךָ֣ סַמִּ֗ים נָטָ֤ף ׀ וּשְׁחֵ֙לֶת֙ וְחֶלְבְּנָ֔ה סַמִּ֖ים וּלְבֹנָ֣ה זַכָּ֑ה בַּ֥ד בְּבַ֖ד יִהְיֶֽה׃

[Exodus 30:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.34/)

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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:922` 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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