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title: Deuteronomy 11:16 (JPS 1917) — Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn as… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; Who acts: you, ye. Deuteronomy 11:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 11:16 · JPS 1917

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Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

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**Who acts:** you, ye · **What happens:** take, deceive, turn, serve, worship · **To what, where:** heed, yourselves, heart, other gods

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This is Deuteronomy 11:16 · 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, ye), 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:334
# text = Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	worship	worship	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | heed | yourselves |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to yourselves=Destination |
| 2 | **deceive** | infinitive · passive |  | your heart |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | present | ye |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | present | ye *not said here* | other gods |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute |
| 5 | **worship** | present | ye *not said here* | heart |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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הִשָּֽׁמְר֣וּ לָכֶ֔ם פֶּ֥ן יִפְתֶּ֖ה לְבַבְכֶ֑ם וְסַרְתֶּ֗ם וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים וְהִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶ֖ם לָהֶֽם׃

[Deuteronomy 11:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.11.16/)

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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:334` 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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