--- title: Exodus 20:7 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LO… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. Who acts: Thou, LORD. 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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 (Thou, 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:560 # text = Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 2 shalt shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 guiltless guiltless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 taketh take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **take** | shall | Thou | the name of the LORD | | vain | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent name=Value in vain=Location | | 2 | **not** **hold** | future | the LORD | God | | | | guiltless *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **take** | present | | LORD's name | | vain | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent name=Value in vain=Location | | 4 | **name** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **name** | | LORD | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} לֹ֥א תִשָּׂ֛א אֶת־שֵֽׁם־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לַשָּׁ֑וְא כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יְנַקֶּה֙ יְהוָ֔ה אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־יִשָּׂ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ לַשָּֽׁוְא׃פ [Exodus 20:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.20.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:560` 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 20:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.559/) - next →: [Exodus 20:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.561/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 20:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.20.7/)