--- title: Exodus 23:21 (JPS 1917) — Take heed of him, and hearken unto his voice; be not rebellious agai… · tree and pragmatics description: Take heed of him, and hearken unto his voice; be not rebellious against him; for he will not pardon your transgression; for My name is in him. Who acts: you, angel, name, your. 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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 (you, angel, name, your), 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:670 # text = Take heed of him, and hearken unto his voice; be not rebellious against him; for he will not pardon your transgression; for My name is in him. 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 heed heed NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 hearken hearken VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 unto unto ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 rebellious rebellious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 15 against against ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 pardon pardon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 transgression transgression NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | heed of angel | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | | 2 | **hearken** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | unto angel's voice | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | infinitive | | | | | | against angel; rebellious *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **pardon** | future | angel | your transgression | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transgression=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | My name | | | | | in angel | tree rules | | 6 | **heed** | | | angel | | | | | nom heed «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **transgress** | | your | | | | | | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **name** | | My | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} הִשָּׁ֧מֶר מִפָּנָ֛יו וּשְׁמַ֥ע בְּקֹל֖וֹ אַל־תַּמֵּ֣ר בּ֑וֹ כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יִשָּׂא֙ לְפִשְׁעֲכֶ֔ם כִּ֥י שְׁמִ֖י בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃ [Exodus 23:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:670` 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. - ← previous: [Exodus 23:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.669/) - next →: [Exodus 23:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.671/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 23:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.21/)