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title: Deuteronomy 1:5 (JPS 1917) — beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expou… · tree and pragmatics
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# Deuteronomy 1:5 · JPS 1917

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beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying:

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**What happens:** take, expound, say · **To what, where:** Moses, land, law · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 1:5 · 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: 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:4
# text = beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying:
1	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	expound	expound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  | Moses |  | the land of Moab |  | beyond the Jordan; upon Moses | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent moses=Value in land=Location |
| 2 | **expound** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | this law |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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בְּעֵ֥בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ן בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מוֹאָ֑ב הוֹאִ֣יל מֹשֶׁ֔ה בֵּאֵ֛ר אֶת־הַתּוֹרָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את לֵאמֹֽר׃

[Deuteronomy 1:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.5/)

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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:4` 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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