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title: Deuteronomy 17:15 (JPS 1917) — thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God… · tree and pragmatics
description: thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose; one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother. Who acts: thou, LORD, one. Deuteronomy 17:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the p
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# Deuteronomy 17:15 · JPS 1917

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thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose; one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD, one · **What happens:** set, choose, not put, not be · **To what, where:** king, wise, thee, foreigner, brother

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This is Deuteronomy 17:15 · 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, LORD, one), 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:493
# text = thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose; one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.
1	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj	_	_
33	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
44	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	acl:relcl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | shall | thou | king |  | any wise |  | over thee | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in wise=Destination |
| 2 | **choose** | shall | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | shall | one from thy brethren | king |  | thee |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over thou=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **put** | may | thou | a foreigner |  | thee |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foreigner=Theme over thou=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present |  | thy brother |  |  |  |  | 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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שׂ֣וֹם תָּשִׂ֤ים עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ מֶ֔לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִבְחַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ בּ֑וֹ מִקֶּ֣רֶב אַחֶ֗יךָ תָּשִׂ֤ים עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ מֶ֔לֶךְ לֹ֣א תוּכַ֗ל לָתֵ֤ת עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ אִ֣ישׁ נָכְרִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־אָחִ֖יךָ הֽוּא׃

[Deuteronomy 17:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.17.15/)

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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:493` of Mova's parse database.

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