--- title: Exodus 17:6 (JPS 1917) — Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.' And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. Who acts: I, thou, water, people. 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And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. **Who acts:** I, thou, water, people, Moses · **What happens:** stand, smite, come, drink, do, sight · **To what, where:** thee, rock, sight, elders This is Exodus 17:6 · 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 (I, thou, water, people), 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:490 # text = Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.' And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 1 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obl _ _ 8 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Horeb Horeb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 17 shalt shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 smite smite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 27 out out ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 38 And and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | future | I | | | thee; there | | upon the rock in Horeb | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before thou=Location | | 2 | **smite** | shall | thou | the rock | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rock=Experiencer | | 3 | **come** | shall | water | | | rock; there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out it=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **drink** | may | the people | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | past | Moses | | | the sight of the elders of Israel | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sight** | | | the elders of Israel | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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} הִנְנִ֣י עֹמֵד֩ לְפָנֶ֨יךָ שָּׁ֥ם ׀ עַֽל־הַצּוּר֮ בְּחֹרֵב֒ וְהִכִּ֣יתָ בַצּ֗וּר וְיָצְא֥וּ מִמֶּ֛נּוּ מַ֖יִם וְשָׁתָ֣ה הָעָ֑ם וַיַּ֤עַשׂ כֵּן֙ מֹשֶׁ֔ה לְעֵינֵ֖י זִקְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ [Exodus 17:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.17.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:490` 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 17:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.489/) - next →: [Exodus 17:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.491/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 17:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.17.6/)