Exodus 34:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3
And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck.
Who acts: thou · What happens: redeem, not redeem, break · To what, where: firstling, lamb, neck
This is Exodus 34:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 redeem | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 firstling | det |
| 3 | firstling | firstling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 redeem | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ass | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ass | det |
| 6 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 firstling | nmod |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 redeem | nsubj |
| 8 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 9 redeem | aux |
| 9 | redeem | redeem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 lamb | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lamb | det |
| 12 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 redeem | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 break | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 break | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 redeem | mark |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 redeem | nsubj |
| 17 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 19 redeem | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 redeem | advmod |
| 19 | redeem | redeem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 break | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 redeem | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 redeem | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 break | advmod |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 break | nsubj |
| 24 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 25 break | aux |
| 25 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 redeem | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 neck | nmod:poss |
| 27 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 break | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 redeem | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | redeem | shall | thou | the firstling of a ass | with a lamb | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firstling=Theme | |||
| 2 | not redeem a condition, not said to happen | future | thou | lamb | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | shall | thou | lamb's neck | then | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient |
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
וּפֶ֤טֶר חֲמוֹר֙ תִּפְדֶּ֣ה בְשֶׂ֔ה וְאִם־לֹ֥א תִפְדֶּ֖ה וַעֲרַפְתּ֑וֹ כֹּ֣ל בְּכ֤וֹר בָּנֶ֙יךָ֙ תִּפְדֶּ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יֵרָא֥וּ פָנַ֖י רֵיקָֽם׃
Exodus 34:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck.
- All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem.
- And none shall appear before Me empty.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:1027 of Mova's parse database.
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