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title: Deuteronomy 13:13 (JPS 1917) — If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which the LORD… · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying: Who acts: thou, you, LORD. Deuteronomy 13:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 13:13 · JPS 1917

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If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying:

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**Who acts:** thou, you, LORD · **What happens:** hear, tell, give, dwell, say · **To what, where:** cities, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 13:13 · 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 (thou, you, LORD), 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:395
# text = If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying:
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	concerning	concern	ADP	VBG	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	iobj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | concern one of thy cities | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | present | the LORD | thy cities | thee |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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־תִשְׁמַ֞ע בְּאַחַ֣ת עָרֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֛ לָשֶׁ֥בֶת שָׁ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר׃

[Deuteronomy 13:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.13.13/)

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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:395` 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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