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title: Exodus 19:12 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying: Take… · tree and pragmatics
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# Exodus 19:12 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying: Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death;

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**Who acts:** thou, ye · **What happens:** set, say, take, not go up, touch, put · **To what, where:** bounds, heed, yourselves, mount, border, whosoever · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 19:12 · 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, ye), 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:540
# text = And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying: Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	bounds	bound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
35	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	toucheth	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | shall | thou | bounds |  |  |  | unto the people; about *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bound=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | heed | yourselves |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to yourselves=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **go up** | present | ye |  |  | the mount |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **touch** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | the border of mount |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme border=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **touch** | present |  | the mount |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mount=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **put** | shall · passive |  | whosoever |  |  |  | to death; surely *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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וְהִגְבַּלְתָּ֤ אֶת־הָעָם֙ סָבִ֣יב לֵאמֹ֔ר הִשָּׁמְר֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם עֲל֥וֹת בָּהָ֖ר וּנְגֹ֣עַ בְּקָצֵ֑הוּ כָּל־הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בָּהָ֖ר מ֥וֹת יוּמָֽת׃

[Exodus 19:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.12/)

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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:540` 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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