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title: Exodus 12:9 (JPS 1917) — Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof. Who acts: you. Exodus 12:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 12:9 · JPS 1917

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Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not eat, roast

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This is Exodus 12:9 · 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 (you), 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:319
# text = Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	sodden	sodden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	roast	roast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	inwards	inwards	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
28	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- 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 | **not** **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of fire; raw *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source |
| 2 | **roast** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with fire=Instrument |

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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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אַל־תֹּאכְל֤וּ מִמֶּ֙נּוּ֙ נָ֔א וּבָשֵׁ֥ל מְבֻשָּׁ֖ל בַּמָּ֑יִם כִּ֣י אִם־צְלִי־אֵ֔שׁ רֹאשׁ֥וֹ עַל־כְּרָעָ֖יו וְעַל־קִרְבּֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 12:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.9/)

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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:319` 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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