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title: Exodus 19:22 (JPS 1917) — And let the priests also, that come near to the LORD, sanctify thems… · tree and pragmatics
description: And let the priests also, that come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.' Who acts: you, priests, LORD. Exodus 19:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 19:22 · JPS 1917

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And let the priests also, that come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.'

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**Who acts:** you, priests, LORD · **What happens:** let, come, sanctify, break · **To what, where:** priests

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This is Exodus 19:22 · 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, priests, LORD), 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:550
# text = And let the priests also, that come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	near	near	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sanctify	sanctify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the priests |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | the priests |  |  |  |  | to the LORD; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lord=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sanctify** | infinitive | the priests *not said here* | priests *= priest* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | upon priests *= priest*; forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |

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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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וְגַ֧ם הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים הַנִּגָּשִׁ֥ים אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה יִתְקַדָּ֑שׁוּ פֶּן־יִפְרֹ֥ץ בָּהֶ֖ם יְהוָֽה׃

[Exodus 19:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.19.22/)

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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:550` 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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