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title: Deuteronomy 4:41 (JPS 1917) — Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; Who acts: Moses. Deuteronomy 4:41 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 4:41 · JPS 1917

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Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;

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**Who acts:** Moses · **What happens:** separate · **To what, where:** three cities

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This is Deuteronomy 4:41 · 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 (Moses), 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:153
# text = Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	separated	separate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sunrising	sunrising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | past | Moses | three cities |  |  | then | beyond the Jordan; toward the sunrising | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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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אָ֣ז יַבְדִּ֤יל מֹשֶׁה֙ שָׁלֹ֣שׁ עָרִ֔ים בְּעֵ֖בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ן מִזְרְחָ֖ה שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

[Deuteronomy 4:41: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.41/)

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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:153` 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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