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title: Exodus 31:15 — Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD; whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Who acts: whosoever. Exodus 31:15 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every 
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# Exodus 31:15 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** whosoever · **What happens:** do, be, put · **To what, where:** work, sabbath, LORD

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This is Exodus 31:15 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — whosoever — and what happens in the verse to work, sabbath, LORD, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 40 chapters of Exodus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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שֵׁ֣שֶׁת יָמִים֮ יֵעָשֶׂ֣ה מְלָאכָה֒ וּבַיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י שַׁבַּ֧ת שַׁבָּת֛וֹן קֹ֖דֶשׁ לַיהוָ֑ה כָּל־הָעֹשֶׂ֧ה מְלָאכָ֛ה בְּי֥וֹם הַשַּׁבָּ֖ת מ֥וֹת יוּמָֽת׃

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[Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD; whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.941/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:EXO:902
# text = שֵׁ֣שֶׁת יָמִים֮ יֵעָשֶׂ֣ה מְלָאכָה֒ וּבַיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י שַׁבַּ֧ת שַׁבָּת֛וֹן קֹ֖דֶשׁ לַיהוָ֑ה כָּל־הָעֹשֶׂ֧ה מְלָאכָ֛ה בְּי֥וֹם הַשַּׁבָּ֖ת מ֥וֹת יוּמָֽת׃
# verse = EXO.31.15
1	שֵׁ֣שֶׁת	שֵׁשׁ	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nummod	_	Gloss=six|Ref=EXO_31:15!1|MId=o020310150011|Strong=8337|Type=cardinal_number
2	יָמִים֮	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Gloss=days|Ref=EXO_31:15!2|MId=o020310150021|Strong=3117
3	יֵעָשֶׂ֣ה	עָשָׂה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=it.will.be.done|Ref=EXO_31:15!3|MId=o020310150031|Strong=6213|Frame=A1:020310150041;|Type=yiqtol
4	מְלָאכָה֒	מְלָאכָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Gloss=work|Ref=EXO_31:15!4|MId=o020310150041|Strong=4399
5-8	וּבַיּ֣וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	8	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_31:15!5|MId=o020310150051|Strong=2050b
6	בַ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=[will|Ref=EXO_31:15!5|MId=o020310150052|Strong=0871a
7	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	8	det	_	Gloss=be]|Ref=EXO_31:15!5|MId=o020310150052ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
8	יּ֣וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Gloss=on.the.day|Ref=EXO_31:15!5|MId=o020310150053|Strong=3117
9-10	הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	10	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=EXO_31:15!6|MId=o020310150061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
10	שְּׁבִיעִ֗י	שְׁבִיעִי	NUM	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	nummod	_	Gloss=seventh|Ref=EXO_31:15!6|MId=o020310150062|Strong=7637|Type=ordinal_number
11	שַׁבַּ֧ת	שַׁבָּת	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Gloss=a.sabbath|Ref=EXO_31:15!7|MId=o020310150071|Strong=7676
12	שַׁבָּת֛וֹן	שַׁבָּתוֹן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.sabbath.observance|Ref=EXO_31:15!8|MId=o020310150081|Strong=7677
13	קֹ֖דֶשׁ	קֹדֶשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	12	appos	_	Gloss=a.holy.thing|Ref=EXO_31:15!9|MId=o020310150091|Strong=6944
14-15	לַיהוָ֑ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_31:15!10|MId=o020310150101|Strong=3807a
15	יהוָ֑ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	8	obl	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=EXO_31:15!10|MId=o020310150102|Strong=3068
16	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Gloss=every|Ref=EXO_31:15!11|MId=o020310150111|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
17-18	הָעֹשֶׂ֧ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	הָ	הַ	SCONJ	_	_	18	mark	_	Gloss=(the).[one|Ref=EXO_31:15!12|MId=o020310150121|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
18	עֹשֶׂ֧ה	עָשָׂה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	16	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=who].does|Ref=EXO_31:15!12|MId=o020310150122|Strong=6213|Frame=A1:020310150131;|Type=participle_active
19	מְלָאכָ֛ה	מְלָאכָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	18	obj	_	Gloss=work|Ref=EXO_31:15!13|MId=o020310150131|Strong=4399
20-21	בְּי֥וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	21	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=EXO_31:15!14|MId=o020310150141|Strong=0871a
21	י֥וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Gloss=the.day|Ref=EXO_31:15!14|MId=o020310150142|Strong=3117
22-23	הַשַּׁבָּ֖ת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	23	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=EXO_31:15!15|MId=o020310150151|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
23	שַּׁבָּ֖ת	שַׁבָּת	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	21	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.sabbath|Ref=EXO_31:15!15|MId=o020310150152|Strong=7676
24	מ֥וֹת	מוּת	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	25	obl:npmod	_	Gloss=surely.(die)|Ref=EXO_31:15!16|MId=o020310150161|Strong=4191|Type=infinitive_absolute
25	יוּמָֽת	מוּת	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HOPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=he.will.be.put.to.death|Ref=EXO_31:15!17|MId=o020310150171|Strong=4191|Frame=A1:020310150122;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	25	punct	_	Ref=EXO_31:15!17
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יֵעָשֶׂה *it will be done* | yiqtol · niphal |  | מְלָאכָה *work* |  |  |
| עֹשֶׂה *who\] does* | participle active · qal |  | מְלָאכָה *work* |  |  |
| יוּמָֽת *he will be put to death* | yiqtol · hophal |  | עֹשֶׂה *who\] does* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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שִׁתָּא יוֹמִין יִתְעֲבֵד עִבִידָא וּבְיוֹמָא שְׁבִיעָאָה שְׁבַת שַׁבְּתָא קוּדְשָׁא קֳדָם יְיָ כָּל דְיַעְבֵּד עִבִדְתָּא בְּיוֹמָא דְשַׁבְּתָא אִתְקְטָלָא יִתְקְטֵל:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD; whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.941/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:EXO:902`.

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