--- title: Deuteronomy 20:16 — Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, Who acts: LORD, thou. Deuteronomy 20:16 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.20.16/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/20/) / 20:16 # Deuteronomy 20:16 דְּבָרִים **Who acts:** LORD, thou · **What happens:** give, save, breathe · **To what, where:** peoples, nothing This is Deuteronomy 20:16 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: who acts — LORD, thou — and what happens in the verse to peoples, nothing, 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. רַ֗ק מֵעָרֵ֤י הָֽעַמִּים֙ הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁר֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֖ נַחֲלָ֑ה לֹ֥א תְחַיֶּ֖ה כָּל־נְשָׁמָֽה׃ [Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.557/) ## 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:550 # text = רַ֗ק מֵעָרֵ֤י הָֽעַמִּים֙ הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁר֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֖ נַחֲלָ֑ה לֹ֥א תְחַיֶּ֖ה כָּל־נְשָׁמָֽה׃ # verse = DEU.20.16 1 רַ֗ק רַק ADV _ _ 3 advmod _ Gloss=only|Ref=DEU_20:16!1|MId=o050200160011|Strong=7535|Type=affirmation 2-3 מֵעָרֵ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=DEU_20:16!2|MId=o050200160021|Strong=4480 3 עָרֵ֤י עִיר NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 17 obl _ Gloss=the.cities|Ref=DEU_20:16!2|MId=o050200160022|Strong=5892 4-5 הָֽעַמִּים֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 5 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=DEU_20:16!3|MId=o050200160031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 5 עַמִּים֙ עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.peoples|Ref=DEU_20:16!3|MId=o050200160032|Strong=5971 6-7 הָאֵ֔לֶּה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=DEU_20:16!4|MId=o050200160041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 אֵ֔לֶּה אֵלֶּה DET _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 det _ Gloss=these|Ref=DEU_20:16!4|MId=o050200160042|Strong=0428|Type=demonstrative 8 אֲשֶׁר֙ אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 12 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=DEU_20:16!5|MId=o050200160051|Strong=0834|Type=relative 9 יְהוָ֣ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 12 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=DEU_20:16!6|MId=o050200160061|Strong=3068 10-11 אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 אֱלֹהֶ֔י אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 appos _ Gloss=God|Ref=DEU_20:16!7|MId=o050200160071|Strong=0430 11 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=DEU_20:16!7|MId=o050200160072|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 12 נֹתֵ֥ן נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 3 acl:relcl _ Gloss=[is].about.to.give|Ref=DEU_20:16!8|MId=o050200160081|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:050200160061;A1:050200160022;|Type=participle_active 13-14 לְךָ֖ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 ל לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=DEU_20:16!9|MId=o050200160091|Strong=3807a 14 ְךָ֖ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=DEU_20:16!9|MId=o050200160092|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 15 נַחֲלָ֑ה נַחֲלָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ Gloss=an.inheritance|Ref=DEU_20:16!10|MId=o050200160101|Strong=5159 16 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 17 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=DEU_20:16!11|MId=o050200160111|Strong=3808|Type=negative 17 תְחַיֶּ֖ה חָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=you.will.let.live|Ref=DEU_20:16!12|MId=o050200160121|Strong=2421|Frame=A0:050200090112;A1:050200160141;|Type=yiqtol 18 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 obj _ Gloss=any|Ref=DEU_20:16!13|MId=o050200160131|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 19 נְשָׁמָֽה נְשָׁמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=breathing.thing|Ref=DEU_20:16!14|MId=o050200160141|Strong=5397|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=DEU_20:16!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes - indirect: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | נֹתֵן *\[is\] about to give* | participle active · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | עָרֵי *the cities* | | | | **not** תְחַיֶּה *you will let live* | yiqtol · piel | | נְשָׁמָֽה *breathing thing* | | | 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} לְחוֹד מִקִרְוֵי עַמְמַיָא הָאִלֵין דִי יְיָ אֱלָהָךְ יָהֵב לָךְ אַחֲסָנָא לָא תְקַיַם כָּל נִשְׁמָתָא 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. [Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.557/) **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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