--- title: Exodus 21:4 (JPS 1917) — If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; t… · tree and pragmatics description: If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. Who acts: master, wife, Hebrew. 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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 (master, wife, Hebrew), 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:583 # text = If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 give give VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 bear bear VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Hebrew's master | a wife | Hebrew | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wife=Theme | | 2 | **bear** | present | wife | sons or daughters | Hebrew | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary son=Patient | | 3 | **is** | shall | the wife and wife's children | | | | | 's wife's master | tree rules | | 4 | **go out** | shall | Hebrew | | | | | by Hebrew | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} אִם־אֲדֹנָיו֙ יִתֶּן־ל֣וֹ אִשָּׁ֔ה וְיָלְדָה־ל֥וֹ בָנִ֖ים א֣וֹ בָנ֑וֹת הָאִשָּׁ֣ה וִילָדֶ֗יהָ תִּהְיֶה֙ לַֽאדֹנֶ֔יהָ וְה֖וּא יֵצֵ֥א בְגַפּֽוֹ׃ [Exodus 21:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:583` 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 21:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.582/) - next →: [Exodus 21:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.584/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 21:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.4/)