--- title: Exodus 19:3 (JPS 1917) — And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the… · tree and pragmatics description: And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying: 'Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: Who acts: Moses, LORD, thou. 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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 (Moses, LORD, thou), 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:530 # text = And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying: 'Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 LORD Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 unto unto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 Thus thus ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 shalt shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 25 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 : : 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 | **go up** | past | Moses | | | | | unto God | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **call** | past | the LORD | | | the mountain | | unto Moses | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the LORD *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou | | the house of Jacob | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to house=Recipient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | the children of Israel | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | 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} וּמֹשֶׁ֥ה עָלָ֖ה אֶל־הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיִּקְרָ֨א אֵלָ֤יו יְהוָה֙ מִן־הָהָ֣ר לֵאמֹ֔ר כֹּ֤ה תֹאמַר֙ לְבֵ֣ית יַעֲקֹ֔ב וְתַגֵּ֖יד לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ [Exodus 19:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:530` 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 19:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.529/) - next →: [Exodus 19:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.531/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 19:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.3/)