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title: Deuteronomy 19:7 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.' Who acts: I, Thou. Deuteronomy 19:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 19:7 · JPS 1917

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Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.'

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** command, say, separate · **To what, where:** thee, three cities · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 19:7 · 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 (I, Thou), 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:527
# text = Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.'
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	command	command	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	separate	separate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **separate** | shall | Thou | three cities |  |  |  | for thee | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |

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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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עַל־כֵּ֛ן אָנֹכִ֥י מְצַוְּךָ֖ לֵאמֹ֑ר שָׁלֹ֥שׁ עָרִ֖ים תַּבְדִּ֥יל לָֽךְ׃ס

[Deuteronomy 19:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.7/)

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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:527` 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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