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title: Deuteronomy 12:8 (JPS 1917) — Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, every man whatso… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes; Who acts: Ye, we, man. Deuteronomy 12:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 12:8 · JPS 1917

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Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;

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**Who acts:** Ye, we, man · **What happens:** not do, do, be · **To what, where:** own eyes

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This is Deuteronomy 12:8 · 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 (Ye, we, man), 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:358
# text = Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | shall | Ye |  |  |  | after all |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | we |  |  | here | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | every man |  |  | man's own eyes |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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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לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֔וּן כְּ֠כֹל אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲנַ֧חְנוּ עֹשִׂ֛ים פֹּ֖ה הַיּ֑וֹם אִ֖ישׁ כָּל־הַיָּשָׁ֥ר בְּעֵינָֽיו׃

[Deuteronomy 12:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.8/)

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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:358` 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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