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title: Exodus 21:22 (JPS 1917) — And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. Who acts: men, fruit, harm, husband. Exodus 21:22 in JPS 1917 with its d
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# Exodus 21:22 · JPS 1917

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And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

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**Who acts:** men, fruit, harm, husband, man, judges · **What happens:** strive, hurt, depart, follow, fine, accord · **To what, where:** woman, man

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This is Exodus 21:22 · 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 (men, fruit, harm, husband), 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:601
# text = And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	strive	strive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	depart	depart	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	fined	fine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	according	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	mark	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
40	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
50	determine	determine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strive** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | men |  |  |  |  | together *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** | present | men *not said here* | a woman |  |  |  | with child | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Patient |
| 3 | **depart** | present | woman's fruit |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | present | no harm |  |  |  | yet |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fine** | shall · passive |  | man |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **lay** | shall | the woman's husband |  |  |  |  | upon man | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination |
| 8 | **pay** | shall | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **determine** | present | the judges |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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־יִנָּצ֣וּ אֲנָשִׁ֗ים וְנָ֨גְפ֜וּ אִשָּׁ֤ה הָרָה֙ וְיָצְא֣וּ יְלָדֶ֔יהָ וְלֹ֥א יִהְיֶ֖ה אָס֑וֹן עָנ֣וֹשׁ יֵעָנֵ֗שׁ כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֨ר יָשִׁ֤ית עָלָיו֙ בַּ֣עַל הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה וְנָתַ֖ן בִּפְלִלִֽים׃

[Exodus 21:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.22/)

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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:601` of Mova's parse database.

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