--- title: Exodus 33:9 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the Tent; and the LORD spoke with Moses. Who acts: Moses, pillar, LORD. 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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, pillar, LORD), 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:990 # text = And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the Tent; and the LORD spoke with Moses. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 8 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Tent Tent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 descended descend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 csubj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Tent Tent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **come** | past | | tent | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **enter** | past | Moses | | | the Tent | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tent=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **descend** | past | the pillar of cloud | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | past | the pillar of cloud *not said here* | | | the door of the Tent | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD | | | | | with Moses | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with moses=Co-Agent | 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} וְהָיָ֗ה כְּבֹ֤א מֹשֶׁה֙ הָאֹ֔הֱלָה יֵרֵד֙ עַמּ֣וּד הֶֽעָנָ֔ן וְעָמַ֖ד פֶּ֣תַח הָאֹ֑הֶל וְדִבֶּ֖ר עִם־מֹשֶֽׁה׃ [Exodus 33:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.33.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:990` 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 33:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.989/) - next →: [Exodus 33:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.991/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 33:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.33.9/)