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title: Exodus 32:12 (JPS 1917) — Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people. Who acts: you. Exodus 32:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 32:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** turn, repent · **To what, where:** fierce wrath

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This is Exodus 32:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (you), 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:957
# text = Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people.
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | Thy fierce wrath |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from wrath=Trajectory |
| 2 | **repent** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this evil; against Thy people | 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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לָמָּה֩ יֹאמְר֨וּ מִצְרַ֜יִם לֵאמֹ֗ר בְּרָעָ֤ה הֽוֹצִיאָם֙ לַהֲרֹ֤ג אֹתָם֙ בֶּֽהָרִ֔ים וּ֨לְכַלֹּתָ֔ם מֵעַ֖ל פְּנֵ֣י הָֽאֲדָמָ֑ה שׁ֚וּב מֵחֲר֣וֹן אַפֶּ֔ךָ וְהִנָּחֵ֥ם עַל־הָרָעָ֖ה לְעַמֶּֽךָ׃

[Exodus 32:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying: For evil did He bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.956/)
2. **Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people.**

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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:957` 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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