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title: Deuteronomy 9:15 (JPS 1917) — So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with… · 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 JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 9:15 · JPS 1917

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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.

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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 · 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 (I, mount, two tables), 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:DEU:281
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come down** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | the mount |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mount=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **burn** | past | the mount |  |  |  |  | with fire | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the two tables of the covenant |  |  | my two hands |  |  | tree rules |

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

[Deuteronomy 9:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.9.15/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:281` 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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