--- title: Deuteronomy 17:19 (JPS 1917) — And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of… · tree and pragmatics description: And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; Who acts: heart, LORD. 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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 (heart, LORD), 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:497 # text = And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 therein therein ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 41 det _ _ 41 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | shall | heart | | | | | with LORD | tree rules | | 2 | **read** | shall | LORD | | | | day | therein *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **learn** | may | LORD | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **fear** | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | the LORD | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | | 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | all words of this law and this statutes | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | words *= word* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 7 | **word** | | | this law and this statutes | | | | | nom word «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} וְהָיְתָ֣ה עִמּ֔וֹ וְקָ֥רָא ב֖וֹ כָּל־יְמֵ֣י חַיָּ֑יו לְמַ֣עַן יִלְמַ֗ד לְיִרְאָה֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֔יו לִ֠שְׁמֹר אֶֽת־כָּל־דִּבְרֵ֞י הַתּוֹרָ֥ה הַזֹּ֛את וְאֶת־הַחֻקִּ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה לַעֲשֹׂתָֽם׃ [Deuteronomy 17:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.17.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:497` 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. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 17:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.496/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 17:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.498/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 17:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.17.19/)