Exodus 20:19 · JPS 1917

(20-16) And they said unto Moses: 'Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.'

Who acts: people, thou, we, God · What happens: say, speak, hear, not let, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 20:19 · 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, thou, we, God), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 20-16	punct
2	20-16	20-16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 said	parataxis
3	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 20-16	punct
4	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	unto	unto	ADP	_	8 Moses	case
8	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Speak	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 Speak	punct
11	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 Speak	nsubj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 Speak	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hear	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hear	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 hear	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 hear	aux
19	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Speak	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 Speak	conj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 let	advmod
24	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 speak	nsubj
25	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	ccomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 speak	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 die	punct
29	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	31 die	mark
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 die	nsubj
31	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 speak	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	people	unto Moses	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	thou	with us	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent
3	hear	future	we		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	not let	infinitive	thou not said here		tree rules
5	speak speech: other	infinitive	God	with us	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent
6	die	present	we		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה דַּבֵּר־אַתָּ֥ה עִמָּ֖נוּ וְנִשְׁמָ֑עָה וְאַל־יְדַבֵּ֥ר עִמָּ֛נוּ אֱלֹהִ֖ים פֶּן־נָמֽוּת׃

Exodus 20:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:572 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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