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title: Exodus 12:44 (JPS 1917) — but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast cir… · tree and pragmatics
description: but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. Who acts: thou, servant. Exodus 12:44 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 12:44 · JPS 1917

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but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

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**Who acts:** thou, servant · **What happens:** buy, circumcise, eat · **To what, where:** servant, LORD

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This is Exodus 12:44 · 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, servant), 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:355
# text = but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hast	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	circumcised	circumcise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present · passive |  | every man's servant |  |  |  | for money | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for money=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **circumcise** | present · perfect | thou | LORD |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **eat** | shall | every man's servant |  |  |  | then | 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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וְכָל־עֶ֥בֶד אִ֖ישׁ מִקְנַת־כָּ֑סֶף וּמַלְתָּ֣ה אֹת֔וֹ אָ֖ז יֹ֥אכַל בּֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 12:44: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.44/)

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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:355` 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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