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title: Deuteronomy 15:2 (JPS 1917) — And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release… · tree and pragmatics
description: And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed. Who acts: this, creditor. Deuteronomy 15:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and
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# Deuteronomy 15:2 · JPS 1917

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And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed.

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**Who acts:** this, creditor · **What happens:** be, release, lend, not exact, proclaim · **To what, where:** manner, that, release

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This is Deuteronomy 15:2 · 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 (this, creditor), 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:433
# text = And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	creditor	creditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	lent	lend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	exact	exact	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
35	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	'S	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | the manner |  |  |  | of the release | tree rules |
| 2 | **release** | shall | every creditor | that |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer that=Source |
| 3 | **lend** | present · perfect | creditor |  |  |  |  | unto creditor's neighbour | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **exact** | shall | creditor | release |  |  |  | of creditor's neighbour and creditor's brother | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **proclaim** | present · perfect · passive |  | the LORD's release |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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וְזֶה֮ דְּבַ֣ר הַשְּׁמִטָּה֒ שָׁמ֗וֹט כָּל־בַּ֙עַל֙ מַשֵּׁ֣ה יָד֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יַשֶּׁ֖ה בְּרֵעֵ֑הוּ לֹֽא־יִגֹּ֤שׂ אֶת־רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ וְאֶת־אָחִ֔יו כִּֽי־קָרָ֥א שְׁמִטָּ֖ה לַֽיהוָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 15:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.2/)

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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:433` 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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