--- title: Deuteronomy 16:2 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt sacrifice the passover-offering unto the LORD thy God… · tree and pragmatics description: And thou shalt sacrifice the passover-offering unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. Who acts: thou, LORD, name. 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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 (thou, LORD, name), 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:457 # text = And thou shalt sacrifice the passover-offering unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 sacrifice sacrifice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 passover passover NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 dwell dwell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 36 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sacrifice** | shall | thou | the passover offering | | the place | | unto the LORD; of the flock and the herd | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | | 2 | **choose** | shall | the LORD | the place | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cause** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | LORD's name | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | LORD's name *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **name** | | LORD | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְזָבַ֥חְתָּ פֶּ֛סַח לַיהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ צֹ֣אן וּבָקָ֑ר בַּמָּקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה לְשַׁכֵּ֥ן שְׁמ֖וֹ שָֽׁם׃ [Deuteronomy 16:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:457` 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 16:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.456/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 16:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.458/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 16:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.2/)