Exodus 23:7 · JPS 1917
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked.
Who acts: you, thou, I · What happens: keep, not slay, not justify · To what, where: thee, false matter, innocent, wicked
This is Exodus 23:7 · 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 (you, thou, I), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Keep | iobj |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 matter | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 matter | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 6 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 matter | amod |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 slay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slay | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 innocent | det |
| 11 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slay | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 righteous | cc |
| 13 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 innocent | conj |
| 14 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 slay | nsubj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 slay | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 justify | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 justify | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 justify | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 justify | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 justify | advmod |
| 22 | justify | justify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 slay | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wicked | det |
| 24 | wicked | wicked | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 justify | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | thee | a false matter | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer thou=Beneficiary from matter=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not slay | infinitive | thou | the innocent | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not justify speech: other | future | I | the wicked | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wicked=Topic |
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
מִדְּבַר־שֶׁ֖קֶר תִּרְחָ֑ק וְנָקִ֤י וְצַדִּיק֙ אַֽל־תַּהֲרֹ֔ג כִּ֥י לֹא־אַצְדִּ֖יק רָשָֽׁע׃
Exodus 23:7: 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:654 of Mova's parse database.
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