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title: Exodus 33:4 (JPS 1917) — And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no m… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did put on him his ornaments. Who acts: people, man. Exodus 33:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 33:4 · JPS 1917

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And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did put on him his ornaments.

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**Who acts:** people, man · **What happens:** hear, mourn, put · **To what, where:** evil tidings, ornaments

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This is Exodus 33:4 · 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 (people, man), 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:984
# text = And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did put on him his ornaments.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the people | this evil tidings |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mourn** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **put** | past · do-support | no man | angel's ornaments |  |  |  | on angel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ornament=Theme on he=Destination |

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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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וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע הָעָ֗ם אֶת־הַדָּבָ֥ר הָרָ֛ע הַזֶּ֖ה וַיִּתְאַבָּ֑לוּ וְלֹא־שָׁ֛תוּ אִ֥ישׁ עֶדְי֖וֹ עָלָֽיו׃

[Exodus 33:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.33.4/)

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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:984` 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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