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title: Deuteronomy 12:19 (JPS 1917) — Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as tho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land. Who acts: you, thou. Deuteronomy 12:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 12:19 · JPS 1917

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Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land.

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** take, not forsake, live · **To what, where:** heed, Levite, land

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This is Deuteronomy 12:19 · 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), 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:369
# text = Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land.
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	forsake	forsake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Levite	Levite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	livest	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 |  |  |  | to thyself | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to thyself=be' clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **forsake** | present | thou | the Levite |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | thou |  |  | thy land |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon land=Location |

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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־תַּעֲזֹ֖ב אֶת־הַלֵּוִ֑י כָּל־יָמֶ֖יךָ עַל־אַדְמָתֶֽךָ׃ס

[Deuteronomy 12:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.19/)

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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:369` 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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