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title: Deuteronomy 15:3 (JPS 1917) — Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release. Who acts: thou, thine, hand. Deuteronomy 15:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 15:3 · JPS 1917

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Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.

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**Who acts:** thou, thine, hand · **What happens:** exact, be, release · **To what, where:** release, whatsoever

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This is Deuteronomy 15:3 · 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, thine, hand), 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:434
# text = Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	exact	exact	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thine	thy	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- 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 | **exact** | may | thou | release |  |  |  | of a foreigner | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | thine |  |  |  |  | with thy brother | tree rules |
| 3 | **release** | shall | thy hand | whatsoever |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer whatsoever=Source |

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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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אֶת־הַנָּכְרִ֖י תִּגֹּ֑שׂ וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֛ אֶת־אָחִ֖יךָ תַּשְׁמֵ֥ט יָדֶֽךָ׃

[Deuteronomy 15:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.3/)

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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:434` 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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