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title: Exodus 33:16 (JPS 1917) — For wherein now shall it be known that I have found grace in Thy sig… · tree and pragmatics
description: For wherein now shall it be known that I have found grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people? is it not in that Thou goest with us, so that we are distinguished, I and Thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?' Who acts: I, nation, people, Thy. Exodus 33:16 in JPS 1917 with it
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# Exodus 33:16 · JPS 1917

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For wherein now shall it be known that I have found grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people? is it not in that Thou goest with us, so that we are distinguished, I and Thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?'

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**Who acts:** I, nation, people, Thy · **What happens:** know, find, not be, distinguish, be, sight · **To what, where:** nation, grace, sight, we · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 33:16 · 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 (I, nation, people, Thy), 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:999
# text = For wherein now shall it be known that I have found grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people? is it not in that Thou goest with us, so that we are distinguished, I and Thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?'
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
12	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
28	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	36	mark	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	appos	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
48	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	acl:relcl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
56	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | shall · passive |  | nation |  |  | now | wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present · perfect | I | grace |  | Thy sight |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | nation |  |  |  |  | with us; go *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **distinguish** | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  | from all people | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme from people=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | all people |  |  |  |  | upon the face; of the earth | tree rules |
| 6 | **sight** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וּבַמֶּ֣ה ׀ יִוָּדַ֣ע אֵפ֗וֹא כִּֽי־מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֤ן בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ אֲנִ֣י וְעַמֶּ֔ךָ הֲל֖וֹא בְּלֶכְתְּךָ֣ עִמָּ֑נוּ וְנִפְלֵ֙ינוּ֙אֲנִ֣י וְעַמְּךָ֔ מִכָּ֨ל־הָעָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָֽה׃פ

[Exodus 33:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.33.16/)

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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:999` of Mova's parse database.

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