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title: Exodus 34:28 (JPS 1917) — And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did n… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. Who acts: LORD. Exodus 34:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 34:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** be, eat, drink · **To what, where:** bread, water

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This is Exodus 34:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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:1038
# text = And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc:preconj	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
21	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | LORD |  |  |  | day | with the LORD; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | past · do-support | LORD | bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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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וַֽיְהִי־שָׁ֣ם עִם־יְהוָ֗ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְאַרְבָּעִ֣ים לַ֔יְלָה לֶ֚חֶם לֹ֣א אָכַ֔ל וּמַ֖יִם לֹ֣א שָׁתָ֑ה וַיִּכְתֹּ֣ב עַל־הַלֻּחֹ֗ת אֵ֚ת דִּבְרֵ֣י הַבְּרִ֔ית עֲשֶׂ֖רֶת הַדְּבָרִֽים׃

[Exodus 34:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.28/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water.**
2. [And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1039/)

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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:1038` 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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