--- title: Deuteronomy 15:9 (JPS 1917) — Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying: 'The s… · tree and pragmatics description: Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying: 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand'; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin in thee. 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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 (you, base thought, seventh year, eye), 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:440 # text = Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying: 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand'; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin in thee. 1 Beware beware VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 that that SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 4 be be AUX VBP Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 ccomp _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 16 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 release release NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 be be AUX VB Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 35 against against ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 needy needy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 42 nsubj _ _ 42 give give VERB VBP Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 iobj _ _ 44 nought nought NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 49 unto unto ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 52 against against ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 48 obl _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 56 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 57 be be AUX VB Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 58 cop _ _ 58 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ _ 59 in in ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 58 nmod _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | you *not said here* | a base thought | | thy heart; there | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a base thought *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the seventh year | | | hand | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | thine eye | | | | | against thy needy brother; evil *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **give** | present | thou | nought | hand | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nought=Theme | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | hand | | | thee | | unto the LORD | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against thou=Location | | 8 | **is a** | infinitive | eye | sin | | thee | | | tree rules | 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} הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֡ פֶּן־יִהְיֶ֣ה דָבָר֩ עִם־לְבָבְךָ֨ בְלִיַּ֜עַל לֵאמֹ֗ר קָֽרְבָ֣ה שְׁנַֽת־הַשֶּׁבַע֮ שְׁנַ֣ת הַשְּׁמִטָּה֒ וְרָעָ֣ה עֵֽינְךָ֗ בְּאָחִ֙יךָ֙ הָֽאֶבְי֔וֹן וְלֹ֥א תִתֵּ֖ן ל֑וֹ וְקָרָ֤א עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה וְהָיָ֥ה בְךָ֖ חֵֽטְא׃ [Deuteronomy 15:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:440` 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. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 15:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.439/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 15:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.441/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 15:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.9/)