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title: Exodus 23:12 (JPS 1917) — Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. Who acts: thou, ox, thy. Exodus 23:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 23:12 · JPS 1917

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Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

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**Who acts:** thou, ox, thy · **What happens:** do, rest, have, refresh, work · **To what, where:** work, rest, son

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This is Exodus 23:12 · 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 (thou, ox, thy), 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:660
# text = Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
26	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	refreshed	refresh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | shall | thou | thy work |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rest** | shall | thou |  |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | may | thine ox and thine ass | rest |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
| 4 | **refresh** | may · passive |  | the son of thy handmaid |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **work** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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שֵׁ֤שֶׁת יָמִים֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה מַעֲשֶׂ֔יךָ וּבַיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י תִּשְׁבֹּ֑ת לְמַ֣עַן יָנ֗וּחַ שֽׁוֹרְךָ֙ וַחֲמֹרֶ֔ךָ וְיִנָּפֵ֥שׁ בֶּן־אֲמָתְךָ֖ וְהַגֵּֽר׃

[Exodus 23:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.12/)

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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:660` 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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