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title: Exodus 12:37 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children. Who acts: children. Exodus 12:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 12:37 · JPS 1917

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And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** journey · **To what, where:** thousand men, Succoth, Rameses

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This is Exodus 12:37 · 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), 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:348
# text = And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
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	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Rameses	Rameses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Succoth	Succoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **journey** | past | the children of Israel | thousand men on foot beside children | Succoth | Rameses |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to succoth=Destination |

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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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וַיִּסְע֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל מֵרַעְמְסֵ֖ס סֻכֹּ֑תָה כְּשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֨וֹת אֶ֧לֶף רַגְלִ֛י הַגְּבָרִ֖ים לְבַ֥ד מִטָּֽף׃

[Exodus 12:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.37/)

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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:348` 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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