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title: Exodus 21:24 (JPS 1917) — eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, · tree and pragmatics
description: eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Exodus 21:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 21:24 · JPS 1917

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eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

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This is Exodus 21:24 · 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: 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:603
# text = eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
1	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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עַ֚יִן תַּ֣חַת עַ֔יִן שֵׁ֖ן תַּ֣חַת שֵׁ֑ן יָ֚ד תַּ֣חַת יָ֔ד רֶ֖גֶל תַּ֥חַת רָֽגֶל׃

[Exodus 21:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.24/)

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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:603` 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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