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title: Deuteronomy 16:6 (JPS 1917) — but at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His na… · tree and pragmatics
description: but at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover-offering at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. Who acts: LORD, name, thou. Deuteronomy 16:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency 
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# Deuteronomy 16:6 · JPS 1917

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but at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover-offering at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

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**Who acts:** LORD, name, thou · **What happens:** choose, cause, dwell, sacrifice, come, name · **To what, where:** place, name, passover offering, season, Egypt

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This is Deuteronomy 16:6 · 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 (LORD, name, 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:461
# text = but at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover-offering at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	RB	_	17	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	passover	passover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	even	even	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	going	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
34	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obj	_	_
43	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	44	nsubj	_	_
44	camest	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	out	out	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | shall | the LORD | the place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | LORD's name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | LORD's name *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sacrifice** | shall | thou | the passover offering |  | the place; there | season | at even; at the going of the sun | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | thou | the season |  | Egypt |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 6 | **name** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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כִּ֠י אִֽם־אֶל־הַמָּק֞וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַ֨ר יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ לְשַׁכֵּ֣ן שְׁמ֔וֹ שָׁ֛ם תִּזְבַּ֥ח אֶת־הַפֶּ֖סַח בָּעָ֑רֶב כְּב֣וֹא הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ מוֹעֵ֖ד צֵֽאתְךָ֥ מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

[Deuteronomy 16:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.6/)

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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:461` of Mova's parse database.

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