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title: Deuteronomy 5:12 (JPS 1917) — Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God comman… · tree and pragmatics
description: Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God commanded thee. Who acts: you, LORD. Deuteronomy 5:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 5:12 · JPS 1917

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Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God commanded thee.

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**Who acts:** you, LORD · **What happens:** observe, keep, command · **To what, where:** name, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 5:12 · 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), 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:173
# text = Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God commanded thee.
1	Observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **observe** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | name |  |  |  | holy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **command** | past | the LORD | thee |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |

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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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שָׁמ֣֛וֹראֶת־י֥וֹם֩הַשַׁבָּ֖֨תלְקַדְּשׁ֑֜וֹכַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוְּךָ֖֣ ׀ יְהוָ֥֣האֱלֹהֶֽ֗יךָ

[Deuteronomy 5:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.5.12/)

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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:173` 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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