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title: Exodus 34:21 (JPS 1917) — Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. Who acts: thou. Exodus 34:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 34:21 · JPS 1917

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Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** work, rest, plow

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This is Exodus 34:21 · 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:EXO:1030
# text = Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	plowing	plow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | shall | thou |  |  |  | day |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | shall | thou |  |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **plow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | shall | thou |  |  |  | time |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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שֵׁ֤שֶׁת יָמִים֙ תַּעֲבֹ֔ד וּבַיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י תִּשְׁבֹּ֑ת בֶּחָרִ֥ישׁ וּבַקָּצִ֖יר תִּשְׁבֹּֽת׃

[Exodus 34:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.21/)

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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:1030` 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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