--- title: Deuteronomy 17:6 — At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. Deuteronomy 17:6 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.17.6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Deuteronomy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/) / [chapter 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/17/) / 17:6 # Deuteronomy 17:6 דְּבָרִים **What happens:** be, put, not put · **To what, where:** thing, mouth This is Deuteronomy 17:6 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: what happens in the verse to thing, mouth, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 34 chapters of Deuteronomy on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. עַל־פִּ֣י ׀ שְׁנַ֣יִם עֵדִ֗ים א֛וֹ שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה עֵדִ֖ים יוּמַ֣ת הַמֵּ֑ת לֹ֣א יוּמַ֔ת עַל־פִּ֖י עֵ֥ד אֶחָֽד׃ [At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.483/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:DEU:477 # text = עַל־פִּ֣י ׀ שְׁנַ֣יִם עֵדִ֗ים א֛וֹ שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה עֵדִ֖ים יוּמַ֣ת הַמֵּ֑ת לֹ֣א יוּמַ֔ת עַל־פִּ֖י עֵ֥ד אֶחָֽד׃ # verse = DEU.17.6 1 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=DEU_17:6!1|MId=o050170060011|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 2 פִּ֣י פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=[the].mouth|Ref=DEU_17:6!2|MId=o050170060021|Strong=6310 3 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ Ref=DEU_17:6!2 4 שְׁנַ֣יִם שְׁנַיִם NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Dual 5 nummod _ Gloss=of.two|Ref=DEU_17:6!3|MId=o050170060031|Strong=8147|Type=cardinal_number 5 עֵדִ֗ים עֵד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 compound:smixut _ Gloss=witnesses|Ref=DEU_17:6!4|MId=o050170060041|Strong=5707 6 א֛וֹ אוֹ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=or|Ref=DEU_17:6!5|MId=o050170060051|Strong=0176 7 שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה שָׁלֹשׁ NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 nummod _ Gloss=three|Ref=DEU_17:6!6|MId=o050170060061|Strong=7969|Type=cardinal_number 8 עֵדִ֖ים עֵד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 conj _ Gloss=witnesses|Ref=DEU_17:6!7|MId=o050170060071|Strong=5707 9 יוּמַ֣ת מוּת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HOPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.will.be.put.to.death|Ref=DEU_17:6!8|MId=o050170060081|Strong=4191|Frame=A1:050170060092;|Type=yiqtol 10-11 הַמֵּ֑ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=the.[one]|Ref=DEU_17:6!9|MId=o050170060091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 מֵּ֑ת מוּת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Gloss=about.to.die|Ref=DEU_17:6!9|MId=o050170060092|Strong=4191|Frame=A0:050170050182;050170050212;|Type=participle_active 12 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 13 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=DEU_17:6!10|MId=o050170060101|Strong=3808|Type=negative 13 יוּמַ֔ת מוּת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HOPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 9 parataxis _ Gloss=he.will.be.put.to.death|Ref=DEU_17:6!11|MId=o050170060111|Strong=4191|Frame=A1:050170060092;|Type=yiqtol 14 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=DEU_17:6!12|MId=o050170060121|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 15 פִּ֖י פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=[the].mouth|Ref=DEU_17:6!13|MId=o050170060131|Strong=6310 16 עֵ֥ד עֵד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.witness|Ref=DEU_17:6!14|MId=o050170060141|Strong=5707 17 אֶחָֽד אֶחָד NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 nummod _ Gloss=one|Ref=DEU_17:6!15|MId=o050170060151|Strong=0259|Type=cardinal_number|SpaceAfter=No 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=DEU_17:6!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יוּמַת *he will be put to death* | yiqtol · hophal | | מֵּת *about to die* | | | | מֵּת *about to die* | participle active · qal | | | | | | **not** יוּמַת *he will be put to death* | yiqtol · hophal | | מֵּת *about to die* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} עַל מֵימַר תְּרֵין סַהֲדִין אוֹ תְּלָתָא סַהֲדִין יִתְקְטִל דְחַיַב קְטוֹל לָא יִתְקְטֵל עַל מֵימַר סָהִיד חָד The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.483/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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