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title: Deuteronomy 5:25 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die. Who acts: we, great fire. Deuteronomy 5:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 5:25 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

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**Who acts:** we, great fire · **What happens:** die, consume, hear · **To what, where:** us, voice

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This is Deuteronomy 5:25 · 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 (we, great fire), 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:187
# text = Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	any	any	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | should | we |  |  |  | now | therefore *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **consume** | future | this great fire | us |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Asset |
| 3 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we | the voice of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 4 | **die** | shall | we |  |  |  | then |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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וְעַתָּה֙ לָ֣מָּה נָמ֔וּת כִּ֣י תֹֽאכְלֵ֔נוּ הָאֵ֥שׁ הַגְּדֹלָ֖ה הַזֹּ֑את אִם־יֹסְפִ֣ים ׀ אֲנַ֗חְנוּ לִ֠שְׁמֹעַ אֶת־ק֨וֹל יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵ֛ינוּ ע֖וֹד וָמָֽתְנוּ׃

[Deuteronomy 5:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.5.25/)

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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:187` 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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