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title: Deuteronomy 15:21 (JPS 1917) — And if there be any blemish therein, lameness, or blindness, any ill… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if there be any blemish therein, lameness, or blindness, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God. Who acts: blemish, thou. Deuteronomy 15:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 15:21 · JPS 1917

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And if there be any blemish therein, lameness, or blindness, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.

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**Who acts:** blemish, thou · **What happens:** be, not sacrifice · **To what, where:** blindness

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This is Deuteronomy 15:21 · 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 (blemish, thou), 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:453
# text = And if there be any blemish therein, lameness, or blindness, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	_	4	expl	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lameness	lameness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	blindness	blindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
20	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **does** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any blemish and lameness or blindness and any ill blemish |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **sacrifice** | shall | thou | blindness |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=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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וְכִֽי־יִהְיֶ֨ה ב֜וֹ מ֗וּם פִּסֵּ֙חַ֙ א֣וֹ עִוֵּ֔ר כֹּ֖ל מ֣וּם רָ֑ע לֹ֣א תִזְבָּחֶ֔נּוּ לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃

[Deuteronomy 15:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.21/)

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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:453` 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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