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title: Deuteronomy 22:26 — But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter. Who acts: thou, man. Deuteronomy 22:26 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of
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# Deuteronomy 22:26 דְּבָרִים

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**Who acts:** thou, man · **What happens:** do, rise, slay, be · **To what, where:** nothing, neighbour, man, matter

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This is Deuteronomy 22:26 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 — thou, man — and what happens in the verse to nothing, neighbour, man, matter, 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.

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וְלַֽנַּעֲרָה֙לֹא־תַעֲשֶׂ֣ה דָבָ֔ר אֵ֥ין לַֽנַּעֲרָ֖ה חֵ֣טְא מָ֑וֶת כִּ֡י כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ יָק֨וּם אִ֤ישׁ עַל־רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ וּרְצָח֣וֹ נֶ֔פֶשׁ כֵּ֖ן הַדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃

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[But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.610/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:603
# text = וְלַֽנַּעֲרָה֙לֹא־תַעֲשֶׂ֣ה דָבָ֔ר אֵ֥ין לַֽנַּעֲרָ֖ה חֵ֣טְא מָ֑וֶת כִּ֡י כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ יָק֨וּם אִ֤ישׁ עַל־רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ וּרְצָח֣וֹ נֶ֔פֶשׁ כֵּ֖ן הַדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃
# verse = DEU.22.26
1-5	וְלַֽנַּעֲרָה֙לֹא־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	6	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_22:26!2|MId=o050220260021|Strong=2050b
2	לַֽ	לְ	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=DEU_22:26!2|MId=o050220260022|Strong=3807a
3	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	4	det	_	Gloss=the.young|Ref=DEU_22:26!2|MId=o050220260022ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
4	נַּעֲרָה֙	נַעֲרָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Gloss=woman|Ref=DEU_22:26!2|MId=o050220260023|Strong=5291
5	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	_	6	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=DEU_22:26!3|MId=o050220260031|Strong=3808|Type=negative
6	תַעֲשֶׂ֣ה	עָשָׂה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2	0	root	_	Gloss=you.will.do|Ref=DEU_22:26!4|MId=o050220260041|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:050220220192;A1:050220260051;|Type=yiqtol
7	דָבָ֔ר	דָּבָר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Gloss=anything|Ref=DEU_22:26!5|MId=o050220260051|Strong=1697
8	אֵ֥ין	אַיִן	ADV	_	_	6	parataxis	_	Gloss=there.[belongs].not|Ref=DEU_22:26!6|MId=o050220260061|Strong=0369|Type=negative
9-11	לַֽנַּעֲרָ֖ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	לַֽ	לְ	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=DEU_22:26!8|MId=o050220260081|Strong=3807a
10	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	11	det	_	Gloss=the.young|Ref=DEU_22:26!8|MId=o050220260081ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
11	נַּעֲרָ֖ה	נַעֲרָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Gloss=woman|Ref=DEU_22:26!8|MId=o050220260082|Strong=5291
12	חֵ֣טְא	חֵטְא	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Gloss=sin|Ref=DEU_22:26!9|MId=o050220260091|Strong=2399
13	מָ֑וֶת	מָוֶת	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	12	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.death|Ref=DEU_22:26!10|MId=o050220260101|Strong=4194
14	כִּ֡י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	26	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=DEU_22:26!11|MId=o050220260111|Strong=3588
15-16	כַּאֲשֶׁר֩	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	_	26	obl	_	Gloss=just|Ref=DEU_22:26!12|MId=o050220260121|Strong=3509a
16	אֲשֶׁר֩	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	17	mark	_	Gloss=as|Ref=DEU_22:26!12|MId=o050220260122|Strong=0834|Type=relative
17	יָק֨וּם	קוּם	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	15	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=he.will.arise|Ref=DEU_22:26!13|MId=o050220260131|Strong=6965|Frame=A0:050220260141;|Type=yiqtol
18	אִ֤ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Gloss=someone|Ref=DEU_22:26!14|MId=o050220260141|Strong=0376
19	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	_	20	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=DEU_22:26!15|MId=o050220260151|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No
20-21	רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	רֵע	רֵעַ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Gloss=neighbor|Ref=DEU_22:26!16|MId=o050220260161|Strong=7453
21	ֵ֙הוּ֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=DEU_22:26!16|MId=o050220260162|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal
22-24	וּרְצָח֣וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	23	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_22:26!17|MId=o050220260171|Strong=2050b
23	רְצָח	רָצַח	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	17	conj	_	Gloss=he|Ref=DEU_22:26!17|MId=o050220260172|Strong=7523|Frame=A0:050220260141;A1:050220260173;|Type=weqatal
24	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	Gloss=will.kill.him|Ref=DEU_22:26!17|MId=o050220260173|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
25	נֶ֔פֶשׁ	נֶפֶשׁ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Gloss=life|Ref=DEU_22:26!18|MId=o050220260181|Strong=5315
26	כֵּ֖ן	כֵּן	ADV	_	_	6	advcl	_	Gloss=[is].so|Ref=DEU_22:26!19|MId=o050220260191|Strong=3651|Type=demonstrative
27-28	הַדָּבָ֥ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
27	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	28	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=DEU_22:26!20|MId=o050220260201|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
28	דָּבָ֥ר	דָּבָר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	Gloss=matter|Ref=DEU_22:26!20|MId=o050220260202|Strong=1697
29-30	הַזֶּֽה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
29	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	30	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=DEU_22:26!21|MId=o050220260211|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
30	זֶּֽה	זֶה	DET	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	Gloss=this|Ref=DEU_22:26!21|MId=o050220260212|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative
31	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	30	punct	_	Ref=DEU_22:26!21
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: yes
- indirect: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **not** תַעֲשֶׂה *you will do* | yiqtol · qal |  | דָבָר *anything* |  |  |
| יָקוּם *he will arise* | yiqtol · qal | אִישׁ *someone* |  |  |  |
| רְצָח *he* | weqatal · qal | אִישׁ *someone* | וֹ *will kill him* |  |  |

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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}

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וּלְעוּלֶמְתָּא לָא תַעְבֵּד מִדַעַם לֵית לְעוּלֶמְתָּא חוֹבַת דִין דִקְטוֹל אֲרֵי כְּמָא דִיקוּם גַבְרָא עַל חַבְרֵהּ וְיִקְטְּלִנֵהּ נְפַשׁ כֵּן פִּתְגָמָא הָדֵין

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.610/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:DEU:603`.

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