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title: Deuteronomy 4:39 (JPS 1917) — know this day, and lay it to thy heart, that the LORD, He is God in… · tree and pragmatics
description: know this day, and lay it to thy heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else. Who acts: you, LORD, none. Deuteronomy 4:39 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 4:39 · JPS 1917

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know this day, and lay it to thy heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.

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**Who acts:** you, LORD, none · **What happens:** know, lay, be · **To what, where:** land, God, heaven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 4:39 · 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 (you, LORD, none), 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:151
# text = know this day, and lay it to thy heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.
1	know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	dislocated	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	above	above	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
30	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
31	else	else	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **know** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | land |  |  |  | to thy heart | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |
| 3 | **is a** | present | LORD | God |  | heaven and the earth |  | the LORD *dislocated* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | none |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְיָדַעְתָּ֣ הַיּ֗וֹם וַהֲשֵׁבֹתָ֮ אֶל־לְבָבֶךָ֒ כִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ ה֣וּא הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם מִמַּ֔עַל וְעַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ מִתָּ֑חַת אֵ֖ין עֽוֹד׃

[Deuteronomy 4:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.39/)

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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:151` 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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