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title: Exodus 21:32 (JPS 1917) — If the ox gore a bondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: If the ox gore a bondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. Who acts: ox, owner. Exodus 21:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 21:32 · JPS 1917

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If the ox gore a bondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

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**Who acts:** ox, owner · **What happens:** gore, give, stone · **To what, where:** bondman, thirty shekels, ox

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This is Exodus 21:32 · 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 (ox, owner), 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:611
# text = If the ox gore a bondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gore	gore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bondman	bondman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bondwoman	bondwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	shekels	shekel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	stoned	stone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gore** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the ox | a bondman or a bondwoman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | shall | owner | thirty shekels of silver |  |  |  | unto bondman's master | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shekel=Theme |
| 3 | **stone** | shall · passive |  | the ox |  |  |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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אִם־עֶ֛בֶד יִגַּ֥ח הַשּׁ֖וֹר א֣וֹ אָמָ֑ה כֶּ֣סֶף ׀ שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שְׁקָלִ֗ים יִתֵּן֙ לַֽאדֹנָ֔יו וְהַשּׁ֖וֹר יִסָּקֵֽל׃ס

[Exodus 21:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.32/)

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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:611` 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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