--- title: Exodus 20:23 (JPS 1917) — (20-20) Ye shall not make with Me — gods of silver, or gods of gold,… · tree and pragmatics description: (20-20) Ye shall not make with Me — gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you. Who acts: Ye. Exodus 20:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.576/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Exodus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/) / [chapter 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/20/) / [20:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.20.23/) / JPS 1 # Exodus 20:23 · JPS 1917 (20-20) Ye shall not make with Me — gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you. **Who acts:** Ye · **What happens:** not make · **To what, where:** gods This is Exodus 20:23 · 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 (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:576 # text = (20-20) Ye shall not make with Me — gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you. 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 2 20-20 20-20 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 dep _ _ 3 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nsubj _ _ 5 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 — - PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nsubj _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 24 unto unto ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=other, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **make** | shall | Ye | gods of silver or gods of gold | | | | with Me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset god=Product | | 2 | **not** **make** | shall | ye | | | | | unto you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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 תַעֲשׂ֖וּן אִתִּ֑י אֱלֹ֤הֵי כֶ֙סֶף֙ וֵאלֹהֵ֣י זָהָ֔ב לֹ֥א תַעֲשׂ֖וּ לָכֶֽם׃ [Exodus 20:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.20.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:576` 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 20:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.575/) - next →: [Exodus 20:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.577/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 20:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.20.23/)