--- title: Exodus 4:27 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said to Aaron: 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.'… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD said to Aaron: 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.' And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. Who acts: LORD. 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And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. **Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** say, go, meet, kiss · **To what, where:** Aaron, wilderness, Moses, lord, mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Exodus 4:27 · 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), 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:109 # text = And the LORD said to Aaron: 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.' And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. 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 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 15 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 18 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD | | Aaron | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to aaron=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | | | | the wilderness | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | | Moses | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moses=Co-Agent | | 4 | **go** | past | lord | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **meet** | past | lord *not said here* | lord | | the mountain of God | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 6 | **kiss** | past | lord *not said here* | lord | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֔ן לֵ֛ךְ לִקְרַ֥את מֹשֶׁ֖ה הַמִּדְבָּ֑רָה וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ וַֽיִּפְגְּשֵׁ֛הוּ בְּהַ֥ר הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים וַיִּשַּׁק־לֽוֹ׃ [Exodus 4:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.27/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:109` 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 4:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.108/) - next →: [Exodus 4:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.110/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 4:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.27/)