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title: Deuteronomy 1:14 (JPS 1917) — And ye answered me, and said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is g… · tree and pragmatics
description: And ye answered me, and said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.' Who acts: ye, thou, thing, us. Deuteronomy 1:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 1:14 · JPS 1917

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And ye answered me, and said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.'

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**Who acts:** ye, thou, thing, us · **What happens:** answer, say, speak, be, do · **To what, where:** me, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 1:14 · 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, thou, thing, us), 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:13
# text = And ye answered me, and said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | ye |  | me |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | thou | the thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the thing |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | us |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַֽתַּעֲנ֖וּ אֹתִ֑י וַתֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ טֽוֹב־הַדָּבָ֥ר אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃

[Deuteronomy 1:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.14/)

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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:13` 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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