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title: Exodus 22:1 (JPS 1917) — (22-1) If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he di… · tree and pragmatics
description: (22-1) If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him. Who acts: thief, he. Exodus 22:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 22:1 · JPS 1917

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(22-1) If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

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**Who acts:** thief, he · **What happens:** find, break in, smite, die · **To what, where:** thief

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This is Exodus 22:1 · 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 (thief, he), 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:617
# text = (22-1) If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
2	22-1	22-1	X	LS	_	22	dep	_	_
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
9	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dieth	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	bloodguiltiness	bloodguiltiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | infinitive · passive |  | a thief |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **break in** | gerund | a thief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **smite** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **die** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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־בַּמַּחְתֶּ֛רֶת יִמָּצֵ֥א הַגַּנָּ֖ב וְהֻכָּ֣ה וָמֵ֑ת אֵ֥ין ל֖וֹ דָּמִֽים׃

[Exodus 22:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.1/)

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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:617` 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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