Exodus 20:25 · JPS 1917
And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast profaned it.
Who acts: thou · What happens: make, not build, hew, lift up, profane · To what, where: altar, Me, tool
This is Exodus 20:25 · 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 (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 | _ | 14 build | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 build | advcl |
| 5 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | iobj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 altar | det |
| 7 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 altar | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 build | nsubj |
| 12 | shalt | shall | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 build | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 build | advmod |
| 14 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 build | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 stones | case |
| 17 | hewn | hew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 stones | amod |
| 18 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 build | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 profaned | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 profaned | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 lift | mark |
| 22 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 lift | nsubj |
| 23 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 profaned | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 lift | compound:prt |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 tool | nmod:poss |
| 26 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lift | obj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lift | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lift | punct |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 profaned | nsubj |
| 31 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 profaned | aux |
| 32 | profaned | profane | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 build | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 profaned | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 build | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | a altar of stone | Me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary altar=Product | |||
| 2 | not build | shall | thou | altar | of hewn stones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 3 | hew | participle | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | lift up a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | thy tool | altar | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tool=Theme upon it=Destination | |||
| 5 | profane | present · perfect | thou | altar | tree rules |
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
וְאִם־מִזְבַּ֤ח אֲבָנִים֙ תַּֽעֲשֶׂה־לִּ֔י לֹֽא־תִבְנֶ֥ה אֶתְהֶ֖ן גָּזִ֑ית כִּ֧י חַרְבְּךָ֛ הֵנַ֥פְתָּ עָלֶ֖יהָ וַתְּחַֽלְלֶֽהָ׃
Exodus 20:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:578 of Mova's parse database.
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