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title: Exodus 21:7 (JPS 1917) — And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not g… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. Who acts: man, wife. Exodus 21:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 21:7 · JPS 1917

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And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

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**Who acts:** man, wife · **What happens:** sell, be, not go out · **To what, where:** daughter, maid servant

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This is Exodus 21:7 · 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 (man, 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:586
# text = And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a man | man's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* | a maid servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **go out** | shall | wife |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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וְכִֽי־יִמְכֹּ֥ר אִ֛ישׁ אֶת־בִּתּ֖וֹ לְאָמָ֑ה לֹ֥א תֵצֵ֖א כְּצֵ֥את הָעֲבָדִֽים׃

[Exodus 21:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.7/)

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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:586` 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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