--- title: Exodus 21:23 (JPS 1917) — But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, · tree and pragmatics description: But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Who acts: harm, thou. Exodus 21:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.602/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Exodus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/) / [chapter 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/21/) / [21:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.23/) / JPS 1 # Exodus 21:23 · JPS 1917 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, **Who acts:** harm, thou · **What happens:** follow, give · **To what, where:** life This is Exodus 21:23 · 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 (harm, thou), 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:602 # text = But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 8 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nsubj _ _ 9 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any harm | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give** | shall | thou | life | | | then | for life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Theme for life=Asset | 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} וְאִם־אָס֖וֹן יִהְיֶ֑ה וְנָתַתָּ֥ה נֶ֖פֶשׁ תַּ֥חַת נָֽפֶשׁ׃ [Exodus 21:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:602` 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 21:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.601/) - next →: [Exodus 21:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.603/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 21:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.23/)