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title: Exodus 32:18 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, ne… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said: 'It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear.' Who acts: noise, camp, voice, I. Exodus 32:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 32:18 · JPS 1917

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And he said: 'It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear.'

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**Who acts:** noise, camp, voice, I · **What happens:** say, not be, shout, be, cry, overcome · **To what, where:** voice, noise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 32:18 · 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 (noise, camp, voice, I), 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:963
# text = And he said: 'It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
6	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	mastery	mastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- 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 | noise |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | camp | the voice neither the voice |  |  |  | of voice | tree rules |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the voice neither the voice |  |  |  |  | for mastery | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for mastery=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | camp | the voice |  |  |  | of voice | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **overcome** | gerund · passive | the voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP» |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the noise of voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **hear** | present · do-support | I | the noise of voice |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 9 | **noise** |  | voice |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אֵ֥ין קוֹל֙ עֲנ֣וֹת גְּבוּרָ֔ה וְאֵ֥ין ק֖וֹל עֲנ֣וֹת חֲלוּשָׁ֑ה ק֣וֹל עַנּ֔וֹת אָנֹכִ֖י שֹׁמֵֽעַ׃

[Exodus 32:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.18/)

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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:963` 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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