--- title: Exodus 3:12 (JPS 1917) — And He said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the t… · tree and pragmatics description: And He said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.' Who acts: Moses, I, this, 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, I, this, 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:64 # text = And He said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 6 Certainly certainly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 0 root _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 token token NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 19 unto unto ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 acl:relcl _ _ 26 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 obj _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 31 mark _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nsubj _ _ 30 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 advcl _ _ 32 forth forth ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 out out ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 39 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 41 nsubj _ _ 40 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 42 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 upon upon ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 45 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 47 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Moses | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** | future | I | | | | | with thee; certainly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | shall | this | the token | | | | unto thee | tree rules | | 4 | **send** | present · perfect | I | thee | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 5 | **bring** | present · perfect | thou | the people | | Egypt | | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent people=Theme out egypt=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **serve** | shall | ye | God | | | | upon this mountain | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute | 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} וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ כִּֽי־אֶֽהְיֶ֣ה עִמָּ֔ךְ וְזֶה־לְּךָ֣ הָא֔וֹת כִּ֥י אָנֹכִ֖י שְׁלַחְתִּ֑יךָ בְּהוֹצִֽיאֲךָ֤ אֶת־הָעָם֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם תַּֽעַבְדוּן֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים עַ֖ל הָהָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃ [Exodus 3:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.3.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:64` 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 3:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.63/) - next →: [Exodus 3:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.65/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 3:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.3.12/)