--- title: Deuteronomy 12:5 (JPS 1917) — But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all y… · tree and pragmatics description: But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even unto His habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come; Who acts: LORD, ye, thou, God. 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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 (LORD, ye, thou, God), 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:355 # text = But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even unto His habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come; 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 2 unto unto ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 12 out out ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 tribes tribe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 19 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 unto unto ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 habitation habitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nsubj _ _ 29 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 thither thither ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 34 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose out** | shall | the LORD | the place | | your tribes | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary tribe=Theme | | 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | God's name | | there | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent name=Goal | | 3 | **seek** | shall | ye | | | | | unto the place; unto God's habitation | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | shall | thou | | | | | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **name** | | God | | | | | | nom name «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} כִּ֠י אִֽם־אֶל־הַמָּק֞וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַ֨ר יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙ מִכָּל־שִׁבְטֵיכֶ֔ם לָשׂ֥וּם אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ שָׁ֑ם לְשִׁכְנ֥וֹ תִדְרְשׁ֖וּ וּבָ֥אתָ שָֽׁמָּה׃ [Deuteronomy 12:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:355` 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 12:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.354/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 12:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.356/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 12:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.5/)