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title: Exodus 12:19 (JPS 1917) — Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whosoe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land. Who acts: leaven, whosoever. Exodus 12:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tre
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# Exodus 12:19 · JPS 1917

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Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.

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**Who acts:** leaven, whosoever · **What happens:** be, find, eat, leaven, cut off, bear · **To what, where:** leaven, houses, that, soul, congregation, sojourner

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This is Exodus 12:19 · 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 (leaven, 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:329
# text = Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.
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	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	leaven	leaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	eateth	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	leavened	leaven	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sojourner	sojourner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	conj	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **be** | shall | no leaven |  |  | there | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  | no leaven *not said here* |  | your houses |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | present | whosoever | that |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 4 | **leaven** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 5 | **cut off** | shall · passive |  | that soul |  | the congregation of Israel |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from congregation=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **is a** | infinitive | leaven | a sojourner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **bear** | present · passive |  |  |  | the land |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים שְׂאֹ֕ר לֹ֥א יִמָּצֵ֖א בְּבָתֵּיכֶ֑ם כִּ֣י ׀ כָּל־אֹכֵ֣ל מַחְמֶ֗צֶת וְנִכְרְתָ֞ה הַנֶּ֤פֶשׁ הַהִוא֙ מֵעֲדַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בַּגֵּ֖ר וּבְאֶזְרַ֥ח הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Exodus 12:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.19/)

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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:329` 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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