--- title: Exodus 16:1 (JPS 1917) — And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of t… · tree and pragmatics description: And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 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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 (they, congregation, wilderness, fifteenth day), 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:446 # text = And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Elim Elim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 10 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 12 det:predet _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 congregation congregation NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 unto unto ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Sin Sin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 between between ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Elim Elim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 acl:relcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 Sinai Sinai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 fifteenth fifteenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 39 amod _ _ 39 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 after after SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 departing depart VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 acl _ _ 43 out out ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 49 . . 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 | **take** | past | they | their journey | | Elim | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent journey=Theme from elim=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **come** | past | all congregation of the children of Israel | | | | day | unto the wilderness of Sin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the wilderness of Sin | | | | | between Elim and Sinai | tree rules | | 4 | **depart** | gerund | the fifteenth day of the second month *not said here* | | | the land of Egypt | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out land=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **journey** | | their *= they* | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיִּסְעוּ֙ מֵֽאֵילִ֔ם וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ כָּל־עֲדַ֤ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶל־מִדְבַּר־סִ֔ין אֲשֶׁ֥ר בֵּין־אֵילִ֖ם וּבֵ֣ין סִינָ֑י בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֨ה עָשָׂ֥ר יוֹם֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִ֔י לְצֵאתָ֖ם מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃ [Exodus 16:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:446` 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 15:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.445/) - next →: [Exodus 16:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.447/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 16:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.1/)