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title: Deuteronomy 13:2 (JPS 1917) — If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dream… · tree and pragmatics
description: If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams — and he give thee a sign or a wonder, Who acts: prophet, he. Deuteronomy 13:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 13:2 · JPS 1917

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If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams — and he give thee a sign or a wonder,

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**Who acts:** prophet, he · **What happens:** arise, give · **To what, where:** midst, sign, thee

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This is Deuteronomy 13:2 · 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 (prophet, he), 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:383
# text = If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams — and he give thee a sign or a wonder,
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	arise	arise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dreamer	dreamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	iobj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | present | a prophet or a dreamer of dreams |  |  | the midst of thee; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
| 2 | **give** | present | he | a sign or a wonder | thee |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient sign=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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כִּֽי־יָק֤וּם בְּקִרְבְּךָ֙ נָבִ֔יא א֖וֹ חֹלֵ֣ם חֲל֑וֹם וְנָתַ֥ן אֵלֶ֛יךָ א֖וֹת א֥וֹ מוֹפֵֽת׃

[Deuteronomy 13:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.13.2/)

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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:383` 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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