--- title: Exodus 23:25 (JPS 1917) — And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, a… · tree and pragmatics description: And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. Who acts: ye, angel, I. 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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 (ye, angel, I), 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:674 # text = And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 25 sickness sickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character, act=promise | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **serve** | shall | ye | the LORD | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Attribute | | 2 | **bless** | future | angel | thy bread and thy water | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | | 3 | **take away** | future | I | sickness | | the midst of thee | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sickness=Theme from midst=Initial\_Location | 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} וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֗ם אֵ֚ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם וּבֵרַ֥ךְ אֶֽת־לַחְמְךָ֖ וְאֶת־מֵימֶ֑יךָ וַהֲסִרֹתִ֥י מַחֲלָ֖ה מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃ [Exodus 23:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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