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title: Exodus 19:17 (JPS 1917) — And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. Who acts: Moses, peoples. Exodus 19:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 19:17 · JPS 1917

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And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

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**Who acts:** Moses, peoples · **What happens:** bring, meet, stand · **To what, where:** people, camp, God, nether part

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This is Exodus 19:17 · 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 (Moses, peoples), 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:545
# text = And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	nether	nether	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **bring** | past | Moses | the people |  | the camp |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent people=Theme out camp=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Moses *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | past | peoples *= people* |  |  | the nether part of the mount |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at part=Location |

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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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וַיּוֹצֵ֨א מֹשֶׁ֧ה אֶת־הָעָ֛ם לִקְרַ֥את הָֽאֱלֹהִ֖ים מִן־הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה וַיִּֽתְיַצְּב֖וּ בְּתַחְתִּ֥ית הָהָֽר׃

[Exodus 19:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.17/)

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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:545` 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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