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title: Deuteronomy 12:23 (JPS 1917) — Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life;… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh. Who acts: you, blood, thou. Deuteronomy 12:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 12:23 · JPS 1917

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Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

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**Who acts:** you, blood, thou · **What happens:** be, not eat · **To what, where:** blood, life

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This is Deuteronomy 12:23 · 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, blood, 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:373
# text = Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	stedfast	stedfast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
19	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stedfast *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | gerund | you *not said here* | the blood |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the blood | the life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **eat** | shall | thou | the life |  |  |  | with the flesh | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |

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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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רַ֣ק חֲזַ֗ק לְבִלְתִּי֙ אֲכֹ֣ל הַדָּ֔ם כִּ֥י הַדָּ֖ם ה֣וּא הַנָּ֑פֶשׁ וְלֹא־תֹאכַ֥ל הַנֶּ֖פֶשׁ עִם־הַבָּשָֽׂר׃

[Deuteronomy 12:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.23/)

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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:373` 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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