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title: Deuteronomy 18:11 (JPS 1917) — or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, o… · tree and pragmatics
description: or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer. Deuteronomy 18:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 18:11 · JPS 1917

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or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer.

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**What happens:** consult · **To what, where:** ghost

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This is Deuteronomy 18:11 · 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: 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:509
# text = or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer.
1	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	charmer	charmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	consulteth	consult	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	necromancer	necromancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consult** | present |  | a ghost or a familiar spirit or a necromancer |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=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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וְחֹבֵ֖ר חָ֑בֶר וְשֹׁאֵ֥ל אוֹב֙ וְיִדְּעֹנִ֔י וְדֹרֵ֖שׁ אֶל־הַמֵּתִֽים׃

[Deuteronomy 18:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.18.11/)

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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:509` 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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