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title: At the bush God gave his name, «I AM WHO I AM», written in Hebrew as… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics
description: At the bush God gave his name, «I AM WHO I AM», written in Hebrew as YHWH; Jews show respect by not saying it aloud. Who acts: God, Jews. A sentence of the lesson «Moses and the Exodus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Moses and the Exodus, sentence 9

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At the bush God gave his name, «I AM WHO I AM», written in Hebrew as YHWH; Jews show respect by not saying it aloud.

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**Who acts:** God, Jews · **What happens:** give, write, show, not say, name · **To what, where:** name, bush, Hebrew, respect · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moses and the Exodus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, Jews), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:006-moses-and-the-exodus.lesson:9
# text = At the bush God gave his name, «I AM WHO I AM», written in Hebrew as YHWH; Jews show respect by not saying it aloud.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 006-moses-and-the-exodus.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	AM	AM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	dep	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	AM	AM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	YHWH	YHWH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
23	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | God | God's name |  | the bush |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent name=Theme at bush=Asset |
| 2 | **write** | participle | God *not said here* |  |  | Hebrew |  | as YHWH | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | present | Jews | respect |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Jews *not said here* | respect |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **name** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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