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title: Exodus 33:21 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said: 'Behold, there is a place by Me, and thou shalt s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said: 'Behold, there is a place by Me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock. Who acts: LORD, place, thou. Exodus 33:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 33:21 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said: 'Behold, there is a place by Me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock.

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**Who acts:** LORD, place, thou · **What happens:** say, be, stand · **To what, where:** rock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 33:21 · 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 (LORD, place, thou), 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:1004
# text = And the LORD said: 'Behold, there is a place by Me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | present | a place by Me |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | shall | thou |  |  | the rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rock=Location |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה הִנֵּ֥ה מָק֖וֹם אִתִּ֑י וְנִצַּבְתָּ֖ עַל־הַצּֽוּר׃

[Exodus 33:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.33.21/)

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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:1004` 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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