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title: Exodus 19:5 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine; Who acts: ye, earth, My. Exodus 19:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 19:5 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine;

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**Who acts:** ye, earth, My · **What happens:** hearken, keep, be, covenant · **To what, where:** covenant, own treasure, Mine

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This is Exodus 19:5 · 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, earth, My), 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:532
# text = Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine;
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	Mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	Mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	parataxis	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **hearken** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | ye |  |  |  |  | unto My voice; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | My covenant |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | ye | Mine own treasure |  |  | now; then | from all peoples; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | all earth | Mine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **covenant** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=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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וְעַתָּ֗ה אִם־שָׁמ֤וֹעַ תִּשְׁמְעוּ֙ בְּקֹלִ֔י וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֑י וִהְיִ֨יתֶם לִ֤י סְגֻלָּה֙ מִכָּל־הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים כִּי־לִ֖י כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Exodus 19:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.5/)

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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:532` 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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