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title: Exodus 20:26 (JPS 1917) — Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakednes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon. Who acts: thou. Exodus 20:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 20:26 · JPS 1917

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Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** go up, not uncover · **To what, where:** nakedness

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This is Exodus 20:26 · 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), 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:579
# text = Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	nakedness	nakedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
18	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | by steps; unto Mine altar; neither *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **uncover** | infinitive · passive |  | thy nakedness |  |  |  | thereon *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְלֹֽא־תַעֲלֶ֥ה בְמַעֲלֹ֖ת עַֽל־מִזְבְּחִ֑י אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹֽא־תִגָּלֶ֥ה עֶרְוָתְךָ֖ עָלָֽיו׃פ

[Exodus 20:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.20.26/)

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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:579` 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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