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title: Deuteronomy 17:1 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God an ox, or a sheep, wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, even any evil thing; for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. Who acts: Thou, that. Deuteronomy 17:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 17:1 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, even any evil thing; for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

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**Who acts:** Thou, that · **What happens:** not sacrifice, be · **To what, where:** ox, blemish, abomination

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This is Deuteronomy 17:1 · 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, that), 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:478
# text = Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, even any evil thing; for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
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	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	abomination	abomination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
32	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=other, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sacrifice** | shall | Thou | a ox or a sheep |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ox=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a blemish |  |  |  | wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | a abomination |  |  |  | unto the LORD | tree rules |

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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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לֹא־תִזְבַּח֩ לַיהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ שׁ֣וֹר וָשֶׂ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֥ה בוֹ֙ מ֔וּם כֹּ֖ל דָּבָ֣ר רָ֑ע כִּ֧י תוֹעֲבַ֛ת יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ הֽוּא׃ס

[Deuteronomy 17:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.17.1/)

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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:478` 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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