Exodus 21:2 · JPS 1917
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Who acts: thou, Hebrew · What happens: buy, serve, go out · To what, where: Hebrew servant, seventh
This is Exodus 21:2 · 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 (thou, Hebrew), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 buy | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 serve | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 servant | det |
| 5 | Hebrew | Hebrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 servant | amod |
| 6 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 serve | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 serve | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 serve | aux |
| 12 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 seventh | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seventh | det |
| 17 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumType=Ord | 20 go | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 serve | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 go | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 nothing | case |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 free | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | a Hebrew servant | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | serve | shall | Hebrew | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go out | shall | Hebrew | the seventh | free, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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
כִּ֤י תִקְנֶה֙ עֶ֣בֶד עִבְרִ֔י שֵׁ֥שׁ שָׁנִ֖ים יַעֲבֹ֑ד וּבַ֨שְּׁבִעִ֔ת יֵצֵ֥א לַֽחָפְשִׁ֖י חִנָּֽם׃
Exodus 21:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:581 of Mova's parse database.
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