Exodus 23:2 · JPS 1917

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou bear witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice;

Who acts: Thou · What happens: not follow, do, bear, turn, pervert · To what, where: multitude, evil, witness, cause, justice

This is Exodus 23:2 · 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), 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 follow	nsubj
2	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 follow	advmod
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 multitude	det
6	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 multitude	advcl
9	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 bear	punct
11	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 bear	cc
12	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	14 bear	aux
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 bear	nsubj
14	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 follow	conj
15	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bear	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 cause	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cause	det
18	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bear	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 turn	mark
20	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 cause	acl
21	aside	aside	ADV	_	20 turn	advmod
22	after	after	ADP	_	24 multitude	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 multitude	det
24	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turn	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pervert	mark
26	pervert	pervert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 multitude	acl
27	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pervert	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 follow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not follow	shall	Thou	a multitude				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent multitude=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive	Thou not said here	evil				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality
3	bear	shall	thou	witness	a cause			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient
4	turn	to-infinitive	thou not said here			after a multitude	aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	pervert	to-infinitive	thou not said here	justice				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

לֹֽא־תִהְיֶ֥ה אַחֲרֵֽי־רַבִּ֖ים לְרָעֹ֑ת וְלֹא־תַעֲנֶ֣ה עַל־רִ֗ב לִנְטֹ֛ת אַחֲרֵ֥י רַבִּ֖ים לְהַטֹּֽת׃

Exodus 23:2: 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:649 of Mova's parse database.

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