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title: Exodus 32:32 (JPS 1917) — Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I p… · tree and pragmatics
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# Exodus 32:32 · JPS 1917

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Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.'

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**Who acts:** Thou, I · **What happens:** forgive, not blot, pray, write · **To what, where:** sin, me, Thee, book

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This is Exodus 32:32 · 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 (Thou, 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:977
# text = Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.'
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
6	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	not	not	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	blot	blot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
28	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forgive** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | Thou | people's sin |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **blot** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Destination |
| 3 | **pray** | present | I | Thee |  | Thy book | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **write** | present · perfect | Thou | Thy book |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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וְעַתָּ֖ה אִם־תִּשָּׂ֣א חַטָּאתָ֑ם וְאִם־אַ֕יִן מְחֵ֣נִי נָ֔א מִֽסִּפְרְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֥ר כָּתָֽבְתָּ׃

[Exodus 32:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.32/)

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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:977` 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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