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title: Exodus 32:17 (JPS 1917) — And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he sa… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses: 'There is a noise of war in the camp.' Who acts: Joshua, people, noise, war. Exodus 32:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 32:17 · JPS 1917

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And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses: 'There is a noise of war in the camp.'

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**Who acts:** Joshua, people, noise, war · **What happens:** hear, shout, say, be, noise · **To what, where:** noise, camp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 32:17 · 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 (Joshua, people, noise, war), 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:962
# text = And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses: 'There is a noise of war in the camp.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	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	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Joshua | the noise of the people |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joshua |  |  |  |  | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** | present | a noise of war |  |  | the camp; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location |
| 5 | **noise** |  | the people |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **noise** |  | war |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וַיִּשְׁמַ֧ע יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ אֶת־ק֥וֹל הָעָ֖ם בְּרֵעֹ֑הוַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה ק֥וֹל מִלְחָמָ֖ה בַּֽמַּחֲנֶה׃

[Exodus 32:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.17/)

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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:962` 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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