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title: Deuteronomy 5:15 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt remember that thou was a servant in the land of Egypt… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt remember that thou was a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. Who acts: thou, LORD. Deuteronomy 5:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tr
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# Deuteronomy 5:15 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt remember that thou was a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD · **What happens:** remember, be, bring out, command, keep · **To what, where:** servant, land, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 5:15 · 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 (thou, 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:176
# text = And thou shalt remember that thou was a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	outstretched	outstretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
35	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
40	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
41	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	obj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | thou | a servant |  | the land of Egypt |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring out** | past | the LORD | thee |  |  |  | by a mighty hand and a outstretched arm; thence *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 4 | **command** | past | the LORD | thee |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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וְזָכַרְתָּ֞֗כִּ֣י־עֶ֤֥בֶדהָיִ֣֙יתָ֙ ׀ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔֗יִםוַיֹּצִ֨אֲךָ֜֩יְהוָ֤֨האֱלֹהֶ֤֙יךָ֙מִשָּׁ֔ם֙בְּיָ֤֥דחֲזָקָ֖ה֙וּבִזְרֹ֣עַ נְטוּיָ֑֔העַל־כֵּ֗ן צִוְּךָ֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת אֶת־י֥וֹם הַשַׁבָּֽת׃

[Deuteronomy 5:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.5.15/)

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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:176` 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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