--- title: Exodus 14:21 (JPS 1917) — And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused t… · tree and pragmatics description: And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. Who acts: Moses, LORD, sea. 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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 (Moses, LORD, sea), 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:406 # text = And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 xcomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 divided divide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch out** | past | Moses | Moses's hand | | the sea | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 2 | **cause** | past | the LORD | the sea | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go back** | to-infinitive | the sea *not said here* | | | | night | by a strong east wind | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past | the LORD *not said here* | the sea | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sea=Product | | 5 | **divide** | past · passive | | the waters | | | | | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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} וַיֵּ֨ט מֹשֶׁ֣ה אֶת־יָדוֹ֮ עַל־הַיָּם֒ וַיּ֣וֹלֶךְ יְהוָ֣ה ׀ אֶת־הַ֠יָּם בְּר֨וּחַ קָדִ֤ים עַזָּה֙ כָּל־הַלַּ֔יְלָה וַיָּ֥שֶׂם אֶת־הַיָּ֖ם לֶחָרָבָ֑ה וַיִּבָּקְע֖וּ הַמָּֽיִם׃ [Exodus 14:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.14.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:406` 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 14:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.405/) - next →: [Exodus 14:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.407/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 14:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.14.21/)