--- title: Exodus 16:35 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they… · tree and pragmatics description: And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. Who acts: children. 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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 (children), 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:483 # text = And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 manna manna NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 until until SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 inhabited inhabit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 manna manna NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 until until SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 30 unto unto ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Canaan Canaan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **eat** | past · do-support | the children of Israel | the manna | | | year | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manna=Patient | | 2 | **come** | past | children *= child* | | | a land | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **inhabit** | participle | | a land *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | past · do-support | children *= child* | the manna | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manna=Patient | | 5 | **come** | past | children *= child* | | | | | unto the borders of the land of Canaan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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} וּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אָֽכְל֤וּ אֶת־הַמָּן֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה עַד־בֹּאָ֖ם אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ נוֹשָׁ֑בֶת אֶת־הַמָּן֙ אָֽכְל֔וּ עַד־בֹּאָ֕ם אֶל־קְצֵ֖ה אֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃ [Exodus 16:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.35/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:483` 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 16:34 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.482/) - next →: [Exodus 16:36 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.484/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 16:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.35/)