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title: Deuteronomy 12:13 (JPS 1917) — Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in ever… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest; Who acts: you, thou, thy. Deuteronomy 12:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 12:13 · JPS 1917

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Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;

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**Who acts:** you, thou, thy · **What happens:** take, not offer, burn, see, offer · **To what, where:** heed, burnt offerings, place

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This is Deuteronomy 12:13 · 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, thou, thy), 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:363
# text = Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;
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	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	1	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	offer	offer	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	seest	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 |  |  |  | to thyself | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to thyself=be' clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **offer** | infinitive | thou | thy burnt offerings |  | every place |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | present | thou | every place |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **offer** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֔ פֶּֽן־תַּעֲלֶ֖ה עֹלֹתֶ֑יךָ בְּכָל־מָק֖וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר תִּרְאֶֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 12:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.13/)

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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:363` 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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