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title: Deuteronomy 31:10 — And Moses commanded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And Moses commanded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, Who acts: Moses. Deuteronomy 31:10 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 31:10 דְּבָרִים

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**Who acts:** Moses · **What happens:** command, say · **To what, where:** sons, end · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Deuteronomy 31:10 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 — Moses — and what happens in the verse to sons, end, 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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וַיְצַ֥ו מֹשֶׁ֖ה אוֹתָ֣ם לֵאמֹ֑ר מִקֵּ֣ץ ׀ שֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֗ים בְּמֹעֵ֛ד שְׁנַ֥ת הַשְּׁמִטָּ֖ה בְּחַ֥ג הַסֻּכּֽוֹת׃

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[And Moses commanded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.864/)

## 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:845
# text = וַיְצַ֥ו מֹשֶׁ֖ה אוֹתָ֣ם לֵאמֹ֑ר מִקֵּ֣ץ ׀ שֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֗ים בְּמֹעֵ֛ד שְׁנַ֥ת הַשְּׁמִטָּ֖ה בְּחַ֥ג הַסֻּכּֽוֹת׃
# verse = DEU.31.10
1-2	וַיְצַ֥ו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_31:10!1|MId=o050310100011|Strong=2050b
2	יְצַ֥ו	צָוָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.commanded|Ref=DEU_31:10!1|MId=o050310100012|Strong=6680|Frame=A0:050310100021;A1:050310100032;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	מֹשֶׁ֖ה	מֹשֶׁה	PROPN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=Moses|Ref=DEU_31:10!2|MId=o050310100021|Strong=4872
4-5	אוֹתָ֣ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	אוֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=|Ref=DEU_31:10!3|MId=o050310100031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
5	ָ֣ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	Gloss=them|Ref=DEU_31:10!3|MId=o050310100032|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
6-7	לֵאמֹ֑ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	לֵ	לְ	ADP	_	ExtPos=SCONJ	9	mark	_	Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=DEU_31:10!4|MId=o050310100041|Strong=3807a
7	אמֹ֑ר	אָמַר	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	6	fixed	_	Gloss=|Ref=DEU_31:10!4|MId=o050310100042|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:050310100021;|Type=infinitive_construct
8-9	מִקֵּ֣ץ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=from.[the]|Ref=DEU_31:10!5|MId=o050310100051|Strong=4480
9	קֵּ֣ץ	קֵץ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	Gloss=end|Ref=DEU_31:10!5|MId=o050310100052|Strong=7093
10	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	Ref=DEU_31:10!5
11	שֶׁ֣בַע	שֶׁבַע	NUM	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	12	nummod	_	Gloss=of.seven|Ref=DEU_31:10!6|MId=o050310100061|Strong=7651|Type=cardinal_number
12	שָׁנִ֗ים	שָׁנָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	9	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=years|Ref=DEU_31:10!7|MId=o050310100071|Strong=8141
13-14	בְּמֹעֵ֛ד	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=at|Ref=DEU_31:10!8|MId=o050310100081|Strong=0871a
14	מֹעֵ֛ד	מוֹעֵד	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Gloss=the.appointed.time|Ref=DEU_31:10!8|MId=o050310100082|Strong=4150
15	שְׁנַ֥ת	שָׁנָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	14	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.the.year|Ref=DEU_31:10!9|MId=o050310100091|Strong=8141
16-17	הַשְּׁמִטָּ֖ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	17	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=DEU_31:10!10|MId=o050310100101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
17	שְּׁמִטָּ֖ה	שְׁמִטָּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.remission|Ref=DEU_31:10!10|MId=o050310100102|Strong=8059
18-19	בְּחַ֥ג	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=at|Ref=DEU_31:10!11|MId=o050310100111|Strong=0871a
19	חַ֥ג	חַג	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Gloss=the.festival|Ref=DEU_31:10!11|MId=o050310100112|Strong=2282
20-21	הַסֻּכּֽוֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	21	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=DEU_31:10!12|MId=o050310100121|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
21	סֻּכּֽוֹת	סֻכָּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	19	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.booths|Ref=DEU_31:10!12|MId=o050310100122|Strong=5521
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=DEU_31:10!12
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: no
- the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יְצַו *he commanded* | wayyiqtol · piel | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* | ָם *them* |  |  |
| אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* |  |  |  |

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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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וּפַקִיד מֹשֶׁה יָתְהוֹן לְמֵימָר מִסוֹף שְׁבַע שְׁנִין בִּזְמַן שַׁתָּא דִשְׁמִטְתָא בְּחַגָא דְמְטַלַיָא

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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. [And Moses commanded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.864/)

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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:845`.

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