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title: Deuteronomy 4:15 (JPS 1917) — Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves — for ye saw no manner o… · tree and pragmatics
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# Deuteronomy 4:15 · JPS 1917

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Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves — for ye saw no manner of form on the day that the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire —

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**Who acts:** ye, LORD · **What happens:** take, see, speak · **To what, where:** good heed, manner, day, Horeb · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 4:15 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. 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, LORD), 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:DEU:127
# text = Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves — for ye saw no manner of form on the day that the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire —
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Horeb	Horeb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive | ye | good heed |  |  |  | unto yourselves; therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | ye | no manner of form |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manner=Stimulus |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD | the day *not said here* |  | Horeb |  | unto you; out the midst of the fire | tree rules |

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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}

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וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּ֥ם מְאֹ֖ד לְנַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑ם כִּ֣י לֹ֤א רְאִיתֶם֙ כָּל־תְּמוּנָ֔ה בְּי֗וֹם דִּבֶּ֨ר יְהוָ֧ה אֲלֵיכֶ֛ם בְּחֹרֵ֖ב מִתּ֥וֹךְ הָאֵֽשׁ׃

[Deuteronomy 4:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.15/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:127` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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