--- title: Deuteronomy 8:11 (JPS 1917) — Beware lest thou forget the LORD thy God, in not keeping His command… · tree and pragmatics description: Beware lest thou forget the LORD thy God, in not keeping His commandments, and His ordinances, and His statutes, which I command thee this day; Who acts: you, thou, I, LORD. 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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 (you, thou, I, 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:257 # text = Beware lest thou forget the LORD thy God, in not keeping His commandments, and His ordinances, and His statutes, which I command thee this day; 1 Beware beware VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 forget forget VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 in in SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 13 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 commandments commandment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 ordinances ordinance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 command command VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 obj _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **forget** | present | thou | the LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **keep** | gerund | thou *not said here* | LORD's commandments and LORD's ordinances and LORD's statutes | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme | | 4 | **command** | present | I | LORD's statutes | | | day | | tree rules | | 5 | **command** | | LORD | | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **ordain** | | LORD | | | | | | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֔ פֶּן־תִּשְׁכַּ֖ח אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ לְבִלְתִּ֨י שְׁמֹ֤ר מִצְוֺתָיו֙ וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֣יו וְחֻקֹּתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י מְצַוְּךָ֖ הַיּֽוֹם׃ [Deuteronomy 8:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:257` 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. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 8:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.256/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 8:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.258/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 8:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.11/)