--- title: Exodus 19:23 (JPS 1917) — And Moses said unto the LORD: 'The people cannot come up to mount Si… · tree and pragmatics description: And Moses said unto the LORD: 'The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou didst charge us, saying: Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.' Who acts: Moses, people, 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, people, 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:551 # text = And Moses said unto the LORD: 'The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou didst charge us, saying: Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 mount mount NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Sinai Sinai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 21 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 charge charge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 23 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Set set VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 28 bounds bound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 about about ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 mount mount NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 sanctify sanctify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Moses | | | | | unto the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **come up** | can | the people | | | mount Sinai | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sinai=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **charge** | past · do-support | thou | us | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location we=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **set** | infinitive | | bounds | | | | about the mount | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bound=Theme about mount=Destination | | 6 | **sanctify** | infinitive | | mount | | | | | tree rules | 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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה לֹא־יוּכַ֣ל הָעָ֔ם לַעֲלֹ֖ת אֶל־הַ֣ר סִינָ֑י כִּֽי־אַתָּ֞ה הַעֵדֹ֤תָה בָּ֙נוּ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הַגְבֵּ֥ל אֶת־הָהָ֖ר וְקִדַּשְׁתּֽוֹ׃ [Exodus 19:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:551` 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 19:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.550/) - next →: [Exodus 19:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.552/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 19:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.23/)