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title: Deuteronomy 15:23 (JPS 1917) — Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out up… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water. Who acts: thou. Deuteronomy 15:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 15:23 · JPS 1917

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Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** not eat, pour out · **To what, where:** blood

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This is Deuteronomy 15:23 · 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), 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:455
# text = Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **not** **eat** | shall | thou | the blood |  |  |  | thereof *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 2 | **pour out** | shall | thou | blood |  |  |  | upon the ground; as water | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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רַ֥ק אֶת־דָּמ֖וֹ לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֑ל עַל־הָאָ֥רֶץ תִּשְׁפְּכֶ֖נּוּ כַּמָּֽיִם׃פ

[Deuteronomy 15:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.23/)

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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:455` 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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