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title: Exodus 34:7 (JPS 1917) — keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and… · tree and pragmatics
description: keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and unto the fourth generation.' Who acts: that. Exodus 34:
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# Exodus 34:7 · JPS 1917

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keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and unto the fourth generation.'

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** keep, forgive, clear, visit · **To what, where:** mercy, iniquity, guilty

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This is Exodus 34:7 · 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 (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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:EXO:1013
# text = keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and unto the fourth generation.'
1	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	thousandth	thousandth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	forgiving	forgive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	transgression	transgression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	means	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	21	obl	_	_
21	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	guilty	guilty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	49	amod	_	_
49	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
51	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund |  | mercy |  |  | unto the thousandth generation |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Theme |
| 2 | **forgive** | gerund |  | iniquity and transgression and sin |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme |
| 3 | **clear** | future | that | the guilty |  |  |  | by no means | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent guilty=Source |
| 4 | **visit** | gerund | that *not said here* | the iniquity of the fathers |  |  |  | upon the children; upon the children's children; unto the third and the fourth generation | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Co-Agent |

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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 {#hebrew}

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נֹצֵ֥ר חֶ֙סֶד֙ לָאֲלָפִ֔ים נֹשֵׂ֥א עָוֺ֛ן וָפֶ֖שַׁע וְחַטָּאָ֑ה וְנַקֵּה֙ לֹ֣א יְנַקֶּ֔ה פֹּקֵ֣ד ׀ עֲוֺ֣ן אָב֗וֹת עַל־בָּנִים֙ וְעַל־בְּנֵ֣י בָנִ֔ים עַל־שִׁלֵּשִׁ֖ים וְעַל־רִבֵּעִֽים׃

[Exodus 34:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.7/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1013` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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