--- title: Exodus 19:13 (JPS 1917) — no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot thro… · tree and pragmatics description: no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live; when the ram's horn soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.' Who acts: hand, horn, beast. 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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 (hand, horn, beast), 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:541 # text = no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live; when the ram's horn soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.' 1 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 surely surely ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 stoned stone VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 shot shoot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 16 through through ADV RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 18 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 advcl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 30 when when SCONJ WRB _ 35 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 soundeth sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 36 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 mount mount NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | shall | no hand | LORD | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | | 2 | **stone** | shall · passive | | LORD | | | | surely *property* | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | | 3 | **shoot through** | participle | | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | infinitive | hand | beast or man | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **live** | shall | hand | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sound** | present | the ram's horn | | | | | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **come up** | shall | beast | | | the mount | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mount=Initial\_Location | 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} לֹא־תִגַּ֨ע בּ֜וֹ יָ֗ד כִּֽי־סָק֤וֹל יִסָּקֵל֙ אוֹ־יָרֹ֣ה יִיָּרֶ֔ה אִם־בְּהֵמָ֥ה אִם־אִ֖ישׁ לֹ֣א יִחְיֶ֑ה בִּמְשֹׁךְ֙ הַיֹּבֵ֔ל הֵ֖מָּה יַעֲל֥וּ בָהָֽר׃ [Exodus 19:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:541` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 19:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.540/) - next →: [Exodus 19:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.542/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 19:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.13/)