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title: Exodus 12:15 (JPS 1917) — Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; howbeit the first day ye s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; howbeit the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. Who acts: ye, whosoever. Exodus 12:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tre
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# Exodus 12:15 · JPS 1917

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Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; howbeit the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

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**Who acts:** ye, whosoever · **What happens:** eat, put away, cut off · **To what, where:** unleavened bread, leaven, houses, leavened bread, soul, Israel

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This is Exodus 12:15 · 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 (ye, whosoever), 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:325
# text = Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; howbeit the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	unleavened	unleavened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	howbeit	howbeit	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	leaven	leaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
24	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	eateth	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	dislocated	_	_
26	leavened	leavened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	until	until	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	amod	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | shall | ye | unleavened bread |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 2 | **put away** | shall | ye | leaven |  | your houses | day | away, howbeit *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaven=Theme out house=Destination |
| 3 | **eat** | present | whosoever | leavened bread |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 4 | **cut off** | shall · passive |  | that soul |  | Israel |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from israel=Initial\_Location |

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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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שִׁבְעַ֤ת יָמִים֙ מַצּ֣וֹת תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ אַ֚ךְ בַּיּ֣וֹם הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן תַּשְׁבִּ֥יתוּ שְּׂאֹ֖ר מִבָּתֵּיכֶ֑ם כִּ֣י ׀ כָּל־אֹכֵ֣ל חָמֵ֗ץ וְנִכְרְתָ֞ה הַנֶּ֤פֶשׁ הַהִוא֙ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִיּ֥וֹם הָרִאשֹׁ֖ן עַד־י֥וֹם הַשְּׁבִעִֽי׃

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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:325` of Mova's parse database.

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