--- title: Exodus 4:16 (JPS 1917) — And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to… · tree and pragmatics description: And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him in God's stead. Who acts: lord, spokesman, thou. 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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, spokesman, 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:96 # text = And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him in God's stead. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 5 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 spokesman spokesman NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 obl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj _ _ 29 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 stead stead NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | shall | lord | thy spokesman | | | | unto the people | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | shall | spokesman | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | spokesman *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | shall | lord | a mouth | | | | to thee | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | shall | thou | | | God's stead | | to Moses | tree rules | 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} וְדִבֶּר־ה֥וּא לְךָ֖ אֶל־הָעָ֑ם וְהָ֤יָה הוּא֙ יִֽהְיֶה־לְּךָ֣ לְפֶ֔ה וְאַתָּ֖ה תִּֽהְיֶה־לּ֥וֹ לֵֽאלֹהִֽים׃ [Exodus 4:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:96` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 4:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.95/) - next →: [Exodus 4:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.97/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 4:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.16/)