--- title: Deuteronomy 5:21 (JPS 1917) — Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's wife; neither shalt thou de… · tree and pragmatics description: Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. Who acts: thou, thing. 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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, thing), 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:182 # text = Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. 1 Neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 4 cc _ _ 2 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 covet covet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 13 cc _ _ 11 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 13 desire desire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 30 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 43 det _ _ 43 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 44 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 46 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 acl:relcl _ _ 48 's 's PART POS _ 47 case _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=request, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **covet** | shall | thou | thy neighbour's wife | | | | | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme | | 2 | **desire** | shall | thou | thy neighbour's house and God's field or God's man servant or God's maid servant and God's ox or God's ass or any thing | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot house=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | any thing | | | | | 's thy neighbour | tree rules | 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} וְלֹ֥א תַחְמֹ֖ד אֵ֣שֶׁת רֵעֶ֑ךָס וְלֹ֨א תִתְאַוֶּ֜ה בֵּ֣ית רֵעֶ֗ךָ שָׂדֵ֜הוּ וְעַבְדּ֤וֹ וַאֲמָתוֹ֙ שׁוֹר֣וֹ וַחֲמֹר֔וֹ וְכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְרֵעֶֽךָ׃ס [Deuteronomy 5:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.5.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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