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title: Exodus 15:27 (JPS 1917) — And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters. Who acts: statute. Exodus 15:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 15:27 · JPS 1917

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And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters.

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**Who acts:** statute · **What happens:** come, be, encamp · **To what, where:** three score, Elim, twelve springs

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This is Exodus 15:27 · 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 (statute), 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:445
# text = And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Elim	Elim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	encamped	encamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | past | statute | three score and ten palm trees |  | Elim |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to elim=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | twelve springs |  |  |  | of water | tree rules |
| 3 | **encamp** | past | statute |  |  | there |  | by the waters | tree rules |

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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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וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ אֵילִ֔מָה וְשָׁ֗ם שְׁתֵּ֥ים עֶשְׂרֵ֛ה עֵינֹ֥ת מַ֖יִם וְשִׁבְעִ֣ים תְּמָרִ֑ים וַיַּחֲנוּ־שָׁ֖ם עַל־הַמָּֽיִם׃

[Exodus 15:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.27/)

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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:445` 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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