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title: Deuteronomy 1:39 (JPS 1917) — Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your c… · tree and pragmatics
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# Deuteronomy 1:39 · JPS 1917

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Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

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**Who acts:** ye, children, little ones, I · **What happens:** say, be, have, go, give, possess · **To what, where:** little ones, prey, knowledge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 1:39 · 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, children, little ones, I), 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:38
# text = Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
38	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ye | your little ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | should |  | a prey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | your children *not said here* | no knowledge of good |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | shall | your little ones |  |  |  |  | moreover, thither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | future | I | knowledge |  |  |  | unto children *= child* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **possess** | shall | children *= child* | knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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וְטַפְּכֶם֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲמַרְתֶּ֜ם לָבַ֣ז יִהְיֶ֗ה וּ֠בְנֵיכֶם אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹא־יָדְע֤וּ הַיּוֹם֙ ט֣וֹב וָרָ֔ע הֵ֖מָּה יָבֹ֣אוּ שָׁ֑מָּה וְלָהֶ֣ם אֶתְּנֶ֔נָּה וְהֵ֖ם יִירָשֽׁוּהָּ׃

[Deuteronomy 1:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.39/)

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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:38` of Mova's parse database.

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