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title: Exodus 20:9 (JPS 1917) — Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; · tree and pragmatics
description: Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; Who acts: thou, thy. Exodus 20:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 20:9 · JPS 1917

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Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

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**Who acts:** thou, thy · **What happens:** labour, do, work · **To what, where:** work

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This is Exodus 20:9 · 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, thy), 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:562
# text = Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	labour	labour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **labour** | shall | thou |  |  |  | day |  | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 3 | **work** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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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שֵׁ֤֣שֶׁתיָמִ֣ים֙תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד֮וְעָשִׂ֖֣יתָכָּל־מְלַאכְתֶּֽךָ֒

[Exodus 20:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.20.9/)

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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:562` 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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