Exodus 23:24 · JPS 1917
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their doings; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.
Who acts: Thou · What happens: not bow down, serve, do, overthrow, break · To what, where: Canaanite, pillars, pieces
This is Exodus 23:24 · 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 bow | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 bow | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bow | advmod |
| 4 | bow | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 bow | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 gods | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gods | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bow | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 serve | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 serve | cc |
| 11 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bow | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 serve | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 do | cc |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bow | conj |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 doings | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 doings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | doings | doing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 overthrow | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 overthrow | cc |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 overthrow | nsubj |
| 22 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 24 overthrow | aux |
| 23 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 24 overthrow | advmod |
| 24 | overthrow | overthrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bow | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 overthrow | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 break | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 break | cc |
| 28 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 overthrow | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 pieces | case |
| 30 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 break | obl |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 pillars | nmod:poss |
| 32 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 break | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bow down | shall | Thou | to Canaanite's gods; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to god=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | serve | infinitive | Thou not said here | Canaanite | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | Thou not said here | after Canaanite's doings | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | overthrow | shall | thou | Canaanite | utterly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | break | infinitive | thou not said here | Canaanite's pillars | pieces | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pillar=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
לֹֽא־תִשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֤ה לֵאלֹֽהֵיהֶם֙ וְלֹ֣א תָֽעָבְדֵ֔ם וְלֹ֥א תַעֲשֶׂ֖ה כְּמַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם כִּ֤י הָרֵס֙ תְּהָ֣רְסֵ֔ם וְשַׁבֵּ֥ר תְּשַׁבֵּ֖ר מַצֵּבֹתֵיהֶֽם׃
Exodus 23:24: 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:673 of Mova's parse database.
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