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title: Exodus 24:2 (JPS 1917) — and Moses alone shall come near unto the LORD; but they shall not co… · tree and pragmatics
description: and Moses alone shall come near unto the LORD; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.' Who acts: Moses, elders, people. Exodus 24:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 24:2 · JPS 1917

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and Moses alone shall come near unto the LORD; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.'

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**Who acts:** Moses, elders, people · **What happens:** come, not come, go up

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This is Exodus 24:2 · 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, elders, 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:684
# text = and Moses alone shall come near unto the LORD; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	near	near	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | Moses |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **come** | shall | elders *= elder* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go up** | shall | the people |  |  |  |  | with Moses | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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וְנִגַּ֨שׁ מֹשֶׁ֤ה לְבַדּוֹ֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה וְהֵ֖ם לֹ֣א יִגָּ֑שׁוּ וְהָעָ֕ם לֹ֥א יַעֲל֖וּ עִמּֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 24:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.24.2/)

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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:684` 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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