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title: Exodus 21:3 (JPS 1917) — If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be marri… · tree and pragmatics
description: If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. Who acts: Hebrew, wife. Exodus 21:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 21:3 · JPS 1917

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If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

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**Who acts:** Hebrew, wife · **What happens:** come in, go out, married · **To what, where:** Hebrew

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This is Exodus 21:3 · 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 (Hebrew, wife), 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:582
# text = If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	married	married	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Hebrew |  |  |  |  | by Hebrew | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Location |
| 2 | **go out** | shall | Hebrew |  |  |  |  | by Hebrew; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **married** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | Hebrew |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go out** | shall | Hebrew's wife |  |  |  | then | with Hebrew; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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אִם־בְּגַפּ֥וֹ יָבֹ֖א בְּגַפּ֣וֹ יֵצֵ֑א אִם־בַּ֤עַל אִשָּׁה֙ ה֔וּא וְיָצְאָ֥ה אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ עִמּֽוֹ׃

[Exodus 21:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.3/)

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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:582` 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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