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title: Exodus 12:43 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no alien eat thereof; Who acts: LORD, This, alien. Exodus 12:43 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 12:43 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no alien eat thereof;

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**Who acts:** LORD, This, alien · **What happens:** say, be, eat · **To what, where:** ordinance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 12:43 · 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 (LORD, This, alien), 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:354
# text = And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no alien eat thereof;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
11	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ordinance	ordinance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	passover	passover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	alien	alien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
24	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Moses and Aaron | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | This | the ordinance |  |  |  | of the passover | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | shall | no alien |  |  | there |  | thereof *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאַהֲרֹ֔ן זֹ֖את חֻקַּ֣ת הַפָּ֑סַח כָּל־בֶּן־נֵכָ֖ר לֹא־יֹ֥אכַל בּֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 12:43: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.43/)

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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:354` 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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