--- title: Exodus 15:21 (JPS 1917) — And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly exa… · tree and pragmatics description: And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly exalted: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. Who acts: Miriam, ye, LORD. 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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 (Miriam, ye, 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:437 # text = And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly exalted: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Miriam Miriam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Sing sing VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 8 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nsubj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 highly highly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 exalted exalt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 rider rider NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Miriam | | | | | unto dances *= dance* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | ye | | the LORD | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lord=Recipient | | 3 | **exalt** | present · passive | | LORD | | | | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **throw** | present · perfect | LORD | the horse and LORD's rider | | | | into the sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer horse=Theme into sea=Result | 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} וַתַּ֥עַן לָהֶ֖ם מִרְיָ֑ם שִׁ֤ירוּ לַֽיהוָה֙ כִּֽי־גָאֹ֣ה גָּאָ֔ה ס֥וּס וְרֹכְב֖וֹ רָמָ֥ה בַיָּֽם׃ס [Exodus 15:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:437` 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 15:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.436/) - next →: [Exodus 15:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.438/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 15:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.21/)