--- title: Exodus 34:9 (JPS 1917) — And he said: 'If now I have found grace in Thy sight, O Lord, let th… · tree and pragmatics description: And he said: 'If now I have found grace in Thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray Thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Thine inheritance.' Who acts: Moses, I, grace, Thy. 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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 (Moses, I, grace, Thy), 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:1015 # text = And he said: 'If now I have found grace in Thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray Thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Thine inheritance.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 6 If if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 now now ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 11 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 O o INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 17 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 vocative _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 25 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 stiffnecked stiffnecked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 people people NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 advcl _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 pardon pardon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 43 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 conj _ _ 51 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 for for ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 Thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 56 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Moses | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | I | grace | | Thy sight | now | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Topic | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | the Lord | | | | Lord *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | | 4 | **pray** | present | I | Thee | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | | | | the midst of us | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in midst=Location | | 6 | **is a** | present | grace | a stiffnecked people | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **pardon** | infinitive | | our iniquity and our sin | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme | | 8 | **take** | infinitive | | us | | | | for Thine inheritance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent we=Theme for inheritance=Beneficiary | | 9 | **sight** | | Thy | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **inherit** | | Thine | | | | | | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיֹּ֡אמֶר אִם־נָא֩ מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֤ן בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ אֲדֹנָ֔י יֵֽלֶךְ־נָ֥א אֲדֹנָ֖י בְּקִרְבֵּ֑נוּ כִּ֤י עַם־קְשֵׁה־עֹ֙רֶף֙ ה֔וּא וְסָלַחְתָּ֛ לַעֲוֺנֵ֥נוּ וּלְחַטָּאתֵ֖נוּ וּנְחַלְתָּֽנוּ׃ [Exodus 34:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1015` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 34:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1014/) - next →: [Exodus 34:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1016/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 34:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.9/)