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title: Exodus 21:13 (JPS 1917) — And if a man lie not in wait, but God cause it to come to hand; then… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if a man lie not in wait, but God cause it to come to hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he may flee. Who acts: man, God, wait, I. Exodus 21:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 21:13 · JPS 1917

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And if a man lie not in wait, but God cause it to come to hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he may flee.

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**Who acts:** man, God, wait, I · **What happens:** not lie, cause, come, appoint, flee · **To what, where:** wait, hand, place, thee

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This is Exodus 21:13 · 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, God, wait, I), 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:592
# text = And if a man lie not in wait, but God cause it to come to hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he may flee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	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	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	appoint	appoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	iobj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **not** **lie** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a man |  |  | wait |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location |
| 2 | **cause** | infinitive | God | wait |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | wait *not said here* |  |  | hand |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hand=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **appoint** | future | I | a place | thee |  | then |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme place=Attribute |
| 5 | **flee** | may | man |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַאֲשֶׁר֙ לֹ֣א צָדָ֔ה וְהָאֱלֹהִ֖ים אִנָּ֣ה לְיָד֑וֹ וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י לְךָ֙ מָק֔וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָנ֖וּס שָֽׁמָּה׃ס

[Exodus 21:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.13/)

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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:592` 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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