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title: Deuteronomy 19:3 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the borders of thy land,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the borders of thy land, which the LORD thy God causeth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee thither. Who acts: Thou, LORD, land, manslayer. Deuteronomy 19:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Deuteronomy 19:3 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the borders of thy land, which the LORD thy God causeth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee thither.

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**Who acts:** Thou, LORD, land, manslayer · **What happens:** prepare, divide, cause, inherit, flee · **To what, where:** way, thee, borders, land, three parts

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This is Deuteronomy 19:3 · 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, land, manslayer), 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:523
# text = Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the borders of thy land, which the LORD thy God causeth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee thither.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	divide	divide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	causeth	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	inherit	inherit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	manslayer	manslayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
35	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | shall | Thou | the way | thee |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary way=Product |
| 2 | **divide** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | the borders of thy land |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | present | the LORD | thy land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **inherit** | to-infinitive | thy land *not said here* |  |  | three parts |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **flee** | may | every manslayer |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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תָּכִ֣ין לְךָ֮ הַדֶּרֶךְ֒ וְשִׁלַּשְׁתָּ֙ אֶת־גְּב֣וּל אַרְצְךָ֔ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יַנְחִֽילְךָ֖ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וְהָיָ֕ה לָנ֥וּס שָׁ֖מָּה כָּל־רֹצֵֽחַ׃

[Deuteronomy 19:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.3/)

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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:523` 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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