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title: Deuteronomy 9:15 — So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. Who acts: I, mount, two tables. Deuteronomy 9:15 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 9:15 דְּבָרִים

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**Who acts:** I, mount, two tables · **What happens:** turn, come down, burn, be · **To what, where:** mount, two hands

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This is Deuteronomy 9:15 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — I, mount, two tables — and what happens in the verse to mount, two hands, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 34 chapters of Deuteronomy on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וָאֵ֗פֶן וָֽאֵרֵד֙ מִן־הָהָ֔ר וְהָהָ֖ר בֹּעֵ֣ר בָּאֵ֑שׁ וּשְׁנֵי֙ לֻחֹ֣ת הַבְּרִ֔ית עַ֖ל שְׁתֵּ֥י יָדָֽי׃

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[So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.281/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:DEU:279
# text = וָאֵ֗פֶן וָֽאֵרֵד֙ מִן־הָהָ֔ר וְהָהָ֖ר בֹּעֵ֣ר בָּאֵ֑שׁ וּשְׁנֵי֙ לֻחֹ֣ת הַבְּרִ֔ית עַ֖ל שְׁתֵּ֥י יָדָֽי׃
# verse = DEU.9.15
1-2	וָאֵ֗פֶן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_9:15!1|MId=o050090150011|Strong=2050b
2	אֵ֗פֶן	פָּנָה	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1	0	root	_	Gloss=I.turned|Ref=DEU_9:15!1|MId=o050090150012|Strong=6437|Frame=A0:050050010021;|Type=wayyiqtol
3-4	וָֽאֵרֵד֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	וָֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	4	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_9:15!2|MId=o050090150021|Strong=2050b
4	אֵרֵד֙	יָרַד	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1	2	conj	_	Gloss=I.went.down|Ref=DEU_9:15!2|MId=o050090150022|Strong=3381|Frame=A0:050050010021;|Type=wayyiqtol
5	מִן־	מִן	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=DEU_9:15!3|MId=o050090150031|Strong=4480|SpaceAfter=No
6-7	הָהָ֔ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	7	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=DEU_9:15!4|MId=o050090150041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
7	הָ֔ר	הַר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Gloss=mountain|Ref=DEU_9:15!4|MId=o050090150042|Strong=2022
8-10	וְהָהָ֖ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	11	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_9:15!5|MId=o050090150051|Strong=2050b
9	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	10	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=DEU_9:15!5|MId=o050090150052|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
10	הָ֖ר	הַר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Gloss=mountain|Ref=DEU_9:15!5|MId=o050090150053|Strong=2022
11	בֹּעֵ֣ר	בָּעַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Gloss=[was].burning|Ref=DEU_9:15!6|MId=o050090150061|Strong=1197|Frame=A0:050090150053;|Type=participle_active
12-14	בָּאֵ֑שׁ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	בָּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=with|Ref=DEU_9:15!7|MId=o050090150071|Strong=0871a
13	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	14	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=DEU_9:15!7|MId=o050090150071ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
14	אֵ֑שׁ	אֵשׁ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Gloss=fire|Ref=DEU_9:15!7|MId=o050090150072|Strong=0784
15-16	וּשְׁנֵי֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	22	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_9:15!8|MId=o050090150081|Strong=2050b
16	שְׁנֵי֙	שְׁנַיִם	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Dual	17	nummod	_	Gloss=the.two|Ref=DEU_9:15!8|MId=o050090150082|Strong=8147|Type=cardinal_number
17	לֻחֹ֣ת	לוּחַ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.tablets|Ref=DEU_9:15!9|MId=o050090150091|Strong=3871
18-19	הַבְּרִ֔ית	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	19	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=DEU_9:15!10|MId=o050090150101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
19	בְּרִ֔ית	בְּרִית	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	17	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.covenant|Ref=DEU_9:15!10|MId=o050090150102|Strong=1285
20	עַ֖ל	עַל	ADP	_	_	22	case	_	Gloss=[were].on|Ref=DEU_9:15!11|MId=o050090150111|Strong=5921
21	שְׁתֵּ֥י	שְׁנַיִם	NUM	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Dual	22	nummod	_	Gloss=the.two|Ref=DEU_9:15!12|MId=o050090150121|Strong=8147|Type=cardinal_number
22-23	יָדָֽי	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	יָד	יָד	NOUN	_	Number=Dual	2	conj	_	Gloss=hands|Ref=DEU_9:15!13|MId=o050090150131|Strong=3027
23	ָֽי	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=my|Ref=DEU_9:15!13|MId=o050090150132|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	23	punct	_	Ref=DEU_9:15!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| אֵפֶן *I turned* | wayyiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| אֵרֵד *I went down* | wayyiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| בֹּעֵר *\[was\] burning* | participle active · qal | הָר *mountain* |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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וְאִתְפְּנֵיתִי וּנְחָתִית מִן טוּרָא וְטּוּרָא בָּעֵר בְּאֶשָׁתָא וּתְרֵין לוּחֵי קְיָמָא עַל תַּרְתֵּין יְדָי

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.281/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:DEU:279`.

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