--- title: Exodus 21:1 (JPS 1917) — Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. · tree and pragmatics description: Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. Who acts: these, thou. Exodus 21:1 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.580/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/21/) / [21:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.1/) / JPS 1 # Exodus 21:1 · JPS 1917 Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. **Who acts:** these, thou · **What happens:** be, set · **To what, where:** ordinances This is Exodus 21:1 · 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 (these, 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:580 # text = Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ordinances ordinance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obj _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 8 shalt shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | these | the ordinances | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **set** | shall | thou | the ordinances | | | before ordinances *= ordinance* | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme before they=Destination | 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} וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּשִׂ֖ים לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃ [Exodus 21:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:580` 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 20:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.579/) - next →: [Exodus 21:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.581/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 21:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.1/)