--- title: Deuteronomy 17:9 (JPS 1917) — And thou shall come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge… · tree and pragmatics description: And thou shall come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days; and thou shalt inquire; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment. Who acts: thou, judge, Levites. 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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, judge, Levites), 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:487 # text = And thou shall come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days; and thou shalt inquire; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment. 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 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 come come 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 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Levites Levite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 unto unto ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 acl:relcl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 inquire inquire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 declare declare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 31 unto unto ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 obl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 judgment judgment NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | shall | thou | | | | | unto the priests and the judge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | shall | the judge | | | | in that days | | tree rules | | 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | shall | thou | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | shall | Levites *= levite* | the sentence of judgment | | | | unto thee | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Attribute | | 5 | **sentence** | | | judgment | | | | | nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וּבָאתָ֗ אֶל־הַכֹּהֲנִים֙ הַלְוִיִּ֔ם וְאֶל־הַשֹּׁפֵ֔ט אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִהְיֶ֖ה בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֑ם וְדָרַשְׁתָּ֙ וְהִגִּ֣ידוּ לְךָ֔ אֵ֖ת דְּבַ֥ר הַמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ [Deuteronomy 17:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.17.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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