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title: Exodus 22:28 (JPS 1917) — The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me. · tree and pragmatics
description: The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me. Who acts: thou. Exodus 22:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 22:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** first born

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This is Exodus 22:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (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:645
# text = The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	born	born	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | shall | thou | the first born of thy sons |  |  |  | unto Me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent born=Theme |

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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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מְלֵאָתְךָ֥ וְדִמְעֲךָ֖ לֹ֣א תְאַחֵ֑ר בְּכ֥וֹר בָּנֶ֖יךָ תִּתֶּן־לִּֽי׃

[Exodus 22:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.28/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.644/)
2. **The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me.**

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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:645` 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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