--- title: Deuteronomy 16:16 (JPS 1917) — Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy… · tree and pragmatics description: Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose; on the feast of unleavened bread, and on the feast of weeks, and on the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty; Who acts: males, LORD. Deuteronomy 16:16 in JPS --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.471/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Deuteronomy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/16/) / [16:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.16/) / JPS 1 # Deuteronomy 16:16 · JPS 1917 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose; on the feast of unleavened bread, and on the feast of weeks, and on the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty; **Who acts:** males, LORD · **What happens:** appear, choose, not appear · **To what, where:** place, LORD This is Deuteronomy 16:16 · 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 (males, LORD), 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:471 # text = Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose; on the feast of unleavened bread, and on the feast of weeks, and on the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty; 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 before before ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obj _ _ 20 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 unleavened unleavened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 tabernacles tabernacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 47 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 49 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 50 before before ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 53 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 xcomp _ _ 54 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | shall | thy males | | | the place | before the LORD; time | on the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of weeks and the feast of tabernacles | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before lord=Location | | 2 | **choose** | shall | LORD | the place | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 3 | **not** **appear** | shall | males *= male* | the LORD | | | | empty *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} שָׁל֣וֹשׁ פְּעָמִ֣ים ׀ בַּשָּׁנָ֡ה יֵרָאֶ֨ה כָל־זְכוּרְךָ֜ אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ בַּמָּקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִבְחָ֔ר בְּחַ֧ג הַמַּצּ֛וֹת וּבְחַ֥ג הַשָּׁבֻע֖וֹת וּבְחַ֣ג הַסֻּכּ֑וֹת וְלֹ֧א יֵרָאֶ֛ה אֶת־פְּנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה רֵיקָֽם׃ [Deuteronomy 16:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:471` 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 16:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.470/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 16:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.472/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 16:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.16/)