Exodus 23:8 · JPS 1917

And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Who acts: thou, gift, that · What happens: take, blind, have, pervert, word · To what, where: gift, wicked, sight, words, righteous

This is Exodus 23:8 · 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, gift, that), 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	_	4 take	cc
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 take	nsubj
3	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 gift	det
6	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 blindeth	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 blindeth	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gift	det
10	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blindeth	nsubj
11	blindeth	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blindeth	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 blindeth	ccomp
15	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 perverteth	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 perverteth	cc
18	perverteth	pervert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 blindeth	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 words	det
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 perverteth	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 righteous	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 righteous	det
23	righteous	righteous	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 words	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request, form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	shall	thou	no gift	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
2	blind	present	a gift	wicked	tree rules
3	have	present	that	sight	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient
4	pervert	present	a gift not said here	the words of the righteous	tree rules
5	word			the righteous	nom word «communication transitive»: of=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

וְשֹׁ֖חַד לֹ֣א תִקָּ֑ח כִּ֤י הַשֹּׁ֙חַד֙ יְעַוֵּ֣ר פִּקְחִ֔ים וִֽיסַלֵּ֖ף דִּבְרֵ֥י צַדִּיקִֽים׃

Exodus 23:8: 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:655 of Mova's parse database.

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