--- title: Deuteronomy 15:16 (JPS 1917) — And it shall be, if he say unto thee: 'I will not go out from thee';… · tree and pragmatics description: And it shall be, if he say unto thee: 'I will not go out from thee'; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he fareth well with thee; Who acts: thing, LORD, I. 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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 (thing, LORD, I), 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:447 # text = And it shall be, if he say unto thee: 'I will not go out from thee'; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he fareth well with thee; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 say say VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 unto unto ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 17 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 obl _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 loveth love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 25 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 fareth fare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 33 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 obl _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | shall | thing | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | LORD | | | | | unto thee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **go out** | future | I | | | thee | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **love** | present | LORD | thee | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | | 5 | **fare** | present | LORD | | | | | with thee; well *property* | 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} וְהָיָה֙ כִּֽי־יֹאמַ֣ר אֵלֶ֔יךָ לֹ֥א אֵצֵ֖א מֵעִמָּ֑ךְ כִּ֤י אֲהֵֽבְךָ֙ וְאֶת־בֵּיתֶ֔ךָ כִּי־ט֥וֹב ל֖וֹ עִמָּֽךְ׃ [Deuteronomy 15:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:447` 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 15:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.446/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 15:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.448/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 15:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.16/)