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title: Deuteronomy 17:17 (JPS 1917) — Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. Who acts: LORD, heart. Deuteronomy 17:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 17:17 · JPS 1917

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Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

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**Who acts:** LORD, heart · **What happens:** multiply, not turn away · **To what, where:** wives, LORD, silver

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This is Deuteronomy 17:17 · 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, heart), 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:495
# text = Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
1	Neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **multiply** | shall | LORD | wives | LORD |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient wife=Extent to himself=Result |
| 2 | **not** **turn away** | infinitive | LORD's heart |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **multiply** | shall | LORD | silver and gold | LORD |  |  | greatly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient silver=Extent to himself=Result |

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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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וְלֹ֤א יַרְבֶּה־לּוֹ֙ נָשִׁ֔ים וְלֹ֥א יָס֖וּר לְבָב֑וֹ וְכֶ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֔ב לֹ֥א יַרְבֶּה־לּ֖וֹ מְאֹֽד׃

[Deuteronomy 17:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.17.17/)

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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:495` 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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