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title: Deuteronomy 16:9 (JPS 1917) — Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks. Who acts: thou. Deuteronomy 16:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 16:9 · JPS 1917

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Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** number, put, stand, begin · **To what, where:** sickle

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This is Deuteronomy 16:9 · 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:464
# text = Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	number	number	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sickle	sickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	number	number	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **number** | shall | thou |  |  |  | week | unto thee | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | present · passive |  | the sickle |  |  | time | to the standing corn; first *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **number** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=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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שִׁבְעָ֥ה שָׁבֻעֹ֖ת תִּסְפָּר־לָ֑ךְ מֵהָחֵ֤ל חֶרְמֵשׁ֙ בַּקָּמָ֔ה תָּחֵ֣ל לִסְפֹּ֔ר שִׁבְעָ֖ה שָׁבֻעֽוֹת׃

[Deuteronomy 16:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.9/)

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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:464` 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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