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title: Exodus 23:15 (JPS 1917) — The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days thou shalt… · tree and pragmatics
description: The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib — for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear before Me empty; Who acts: thou, I, none. Exodus 23:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency
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# Exodus 23:15 · JPS 1917

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The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib — for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear before Me empty;

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**Who acts:** thou, I, none · **What happens:** keep, eat, command, appoint, come out, appear · **To what, where:** feast, unleavened bread, thee, time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Exodus 23:15 · 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, I, none), 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:663
# text = The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib — for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear before Me empty;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	unleavened	unleavened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
15	unleavened	unleavened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
26	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	Abib	Abib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
31	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
35	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nsubj	_	_
36	camest	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
37	out	out	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	44	nsubj	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
45	before	before	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
47	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | shall | thou | the feast of unleavened bread |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | shall | thou | unleavened bread |  |  | day; time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 3 | **command** | past | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |
| 4 | **appoint** | participle |  | the time *not said here* |  |  | month |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come out** | past | thou |  |  | feast |  | from Egypt; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **appear** | shall | none |  |  |  | before Me | empty *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location |

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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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אֶת־חַ֣ג הַמַּצּוֹת֮ תִּשְׁמֹר֒ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִים֩ תֹּאכַ֨ל מַצּ֜וֹת כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֣ר צִוִּיתִ֗ךָ לְמוֹעֵד֙ חֹ֣דֶשׁ הָֽאָבִ֔יב כִּי־ב֖וֹ יָצָ֣אתָ מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וְלֹא־יֵרָא֥וּ פָנַ֖י רֵיקָֽם׃

[Exodus 23:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.15/)

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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:663` of Mova's parse database.

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