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title: Deuteronomy 17:16 (JPS 1917) — Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses; forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you: 'Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.' Who acts: LORD, people, Ye. Deuteronomy 17:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tre
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# Deuteronomy 17:16 · JPS 1917

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Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses; forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you: 'Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, people, Ye · **What happens:** not multiply, cause, return, multiply, say · **To what, where:** horses, LORD, people, Egypt, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 17:16 · 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 (LORD, people, Ye), 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:494
# text = Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses; forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you: 'Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.'
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
11	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
26	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	forasmuch	forasmuch	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
34	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
38	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nsubj	_	_
39	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
42	no	no	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
44	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	det	_	_
45	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **multiply** | shall | LORD | horses | LORD |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient horse=Extent to himself=Result |
| 2 | **cause** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | the people |  |  | to the end |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* |  | Egypt |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to egypt=Result |
| 4 | **multiply** | should | LORD | horses |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **return** | shall | Ye | that way |  |  |  | henceforth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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רַק֮ לֹא־יַרְבֶּה־לּ֣וֹ סוּסִים֒ וְלֹֽא־יָשִׁ֤יב אֶת־הָעָם֙ מִצְרַ֔יְמָה לְמַ֖עַן הַרְבּ֣וֹת ס֑וּס וַֽיהוָה֙ אָמַ֣ר לָכֶ֔ם לֹ֣א תֹסִפ֗וּן לָשׁ֛וּב בַּדֶּ֥רֶךְ הַזֶּ֖ה עֽוֹד׃

[Deuteronomy 17:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.17.16/)

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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:494` of Mova's parse database.

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