--- title: Exodus 34:20 (JPS 1917) — And none shall appear before Me empty. · tree and pragmatics description: And none shall appear before Me empty. Who acts: none. Exodus 34:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1029/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Exodus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/) / [chapter 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/34/) / [34:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.20/) / JPS 3 # Exodus 34:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 And none shall appear before Me empty. **Who acts:** none · **What happens:** appear This is Exodus 34:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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 (none), 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:1029 # text = And none shall appear before Me empty. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | shall | none | | | | before Me | empty *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location | 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} וּפֶ֤טֶר חֲמוֹר֙ תִּפְדֶּ֣ה בְשֶׂ֔ה וְאִם־לֹ֥א תִפְדֶּ֖ה וַעֲרַפְתּ֑וֹ כֹּ֣ל בְּכ֤וֹר בָּנֶ֙יךָ֙ תִּפְדֶּ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יֵרָא֥וּ פָנַ֖י רֵיקָֽם׃ [Exodus 34:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.20/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1027/) 2. [All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1028/) 3. **And none shall appear before Me empty.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:1029` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 34:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1028/) - next →: [Exodus 34:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1030/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 34:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.20/)