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title: Exodus 13:2 (JPS 1917) — 'Sanctify unto Me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb am… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Sanctify unto Me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast, it is Mine.' Who acts: you, whatsoever, man. Exodus 13:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 13:2 · JPS 1917

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'Sanctify unto Me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast, it is Mine.'

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**Who acts:** you, whatsoever, man · **What happens:** sanctify, open, be · **To what, where:** first born, womb, Mine

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This is Exodus 13:2 · 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, whatsoever, man), 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:364
# text = 'Sanctify unto Me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast, it is Mine.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Sanctify	Sanctify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	born	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WDT	_	12	nsubj	_	_
12	openeth	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	Mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	parataxis	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	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 | **sanctify** | imperative | you *not said here* | all first born |  |  |  | unto Me | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | present | whatsoever | the womb |  |  |  | among the children of Israel | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent womb=Theme among child=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | both man and beast | Mine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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קַדֶּשׁ־לִ֨י כָל־בְּכ֜וֹר פֶּ֤טֶר כָּל־רֶ֙חֶם֙ בִּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָ֑ה לִ֖י הֽוּא׃

[Exodus 13:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.2/)

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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:364` 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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