--- title: Deuteronomy 12:17 (JPS 1917) — Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of th… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the offering of thy hand; Who acts: Thou, thy. 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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 (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:367 # text = Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the offering of thy hand; 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 2 mayest may AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 within within ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tithe tithe NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 firstlings firstling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 36 cc _ _ 36 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 26 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 vows vow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obj _ _ 41 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 42 nsubj _ _ 42 vowest vow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 48 cc _ _ 45 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 48 nmod:poss _ _ 46 freewill freewill NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ _ 48 offerings offering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 52 cc _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ _ 56 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **eat** | may | Thou | the tithe of thy corn or thy wine or thine oil or the firstlings of thy herd or thy flock nor thy freewill offerings nor the offering of thy hand | | | | within thy gates | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tithe=Patient | | 2 | **vow** | present | thou | thy vows | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **vow** | | thy | | | | | | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 4 | **offer** | | thy | | | | | | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **offer** | | | thy hand | | | | | nom offering «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} לֹֽא־תוּכַ֞ל לֶאֱכֹ֣ל בִּשְׁעָרֶ֗יךָ מַעְשַׂ֤ר דְּגָֽנְךָ֙ וְתִֽירֹשְׁךָ֣ וְיִצְהָרֶ֔ךָ וּבְכֹרֹ֥ת בְּקָרְךָ֖ וְצֹאנֶ֑ךָ וְכָל־נְדָרֶ֙יךָ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּדֹּ֔ר וְנִדְבֹתֶ֖יךָ וּתְרוּמַ֥ת יָדֶֽךָ׃ [Deuteronomy 12:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:367` 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 12:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.366/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 12:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.368/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 12:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.17/)