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title: Deuteronomy 4:16 (JPS 1917) — lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form o… · tree and pragmatics
description: lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, Who acts: ye. Deuteronomy 4:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 4:16 · JPS 1917

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lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** deal, make, graven, form · **To what, where:** graven image, you, figure

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This is Deuteronomy 4:16 · 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), 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:128
# text = lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
1	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	deal	deal	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	corruptly	corruptly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	graven	graven	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | corruptly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | a graven image | you |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary image=Product |
| 3 | **graven** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | any figure |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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פֶּ֨ן־תַּשְׁחִת֔וּן וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֥ם לָכֶ֛ם פֶּ֖סֶל תְּמוּנַ֣ת כָּל־סָ֑מֶל תַּבְנִ֥ית זָכָ֖ר א֥וֹ נְקֵבָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 4:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.16/)

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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:128` 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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