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title: Exodus 34:35 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of M… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face sent forth beams; and Moses put the veil back upon his face, until he went in to speak with Him. Who acts: children, skin, Moses. Exodus 34:35 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 34:35 · JPS 1917

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And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face sent forth beams; and Moses put the veil back upon his face, until he went in to speak with Him.

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**Who acts:** children, skin, Moses · **What happens:** see, send, put back, go in, speak · **To what, where:** face, beams, veil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 34:35 · 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 (children, skin, Moses), 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:1046
# text = And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face sent forth beams; and Moses put the veil back upon his face, until he went in to speak with Him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **see** | past | the children of Israel | the face of Moses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | the skin of Moses's face | beams |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beam=Theme |
| 3 | **put back** | past | Moses | the veil |  | Moses's face |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme upon face=Destination |
| 4 | **go in** | past | Moses |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Moses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Moses | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |

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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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וְרָא֤וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י מֹשֶׁ֔ה כִּ֣י קָרַ֔ן ע֖וֹר פְּנֵ֣י מֹשֶׁ֑ה וְהֵשִׁ֨יב מֹשֶׁ֤ה אֶת־הַמַּסְוֶה֙ עַל־פָּנָ֔יו עַד־בֹּא֖וֹ לְדַבֵּ֥ר אִתּֽוֹ׃ס

[Exodus 34:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.35/)

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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:1046` 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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