--- title: Exodus 14:20 (JPS 1917) — and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and th… · tree and pragmatics description: and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness here, yet gave it light by night there; and the one came not near the other all the night. Who acts: angel, one. 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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 (angel, one), 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:405 # text = and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness here, yet gave it light by night there; and the one came not near the other all the night. 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nsubj _ _ 36 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 not not ADV RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 38 near near ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 other other NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 43 det:predet _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | angel | | | the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between camp=Location | | 2 | **give** | past | angel *not said here* | light | angel | there | night | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient light=Theme | | 3 | **not** **come** | past | the one | | | the other | night | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near other=Location | 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} וַיָּבֹ֞א בֵּ֣ין ׀ מַחֲנֵ֣ה מִצְרַ֗יִם וּבֵין֙ מַחֲנֵ֣ה יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיְהִ֤י הֶֽעָנָן֙ וְהַחֹ֔שֶׁךְ וַיָּ֖אֶר אֶת־הַלָּ֑יְלָה וְלֹא־קָרַ֥ב זֶ֛ה אֶל־זֶ֖ה כָּל־הַלָּֽיְלָה׃ [Exodus 14:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.14.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:405` 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 14:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.404/) - next →: [Exodus 14:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.406/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 14:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.14.20/)