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title: Deuteronomy 19:9 (JPS 1917) — if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it, which I command th… · tree and pragmatics
description: if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in His ways — then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three; Who acts: thou, I. Deuteronomy 19:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Deuteronomy 19:9 · JPS 1917

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if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in His ways — then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three;

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**Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** keep, do, command, love, walk, add · **To what, where:** commandment, thee, LORD, ways, three cities, three · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 19:9 · 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, I), 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:529
# text = if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in His ways — then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three;
1	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	command	command	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	iobj	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
35	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nsubj	_	_
37	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
38	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	obl	_	_
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | thou | all commandment |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | commandment |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **command** | present | I | all commandment | thee |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus |
| 5 | **walk** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  | LORD's ways | ever |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | shall | thou | three cities |  | this three | then | for thee | vn mix-22.1-2 «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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כִּֽי־תִשְׁמֹר֩ אֶת־כָּל־הַמִּצְוָ֨ה הַזֹּ֜את לַעֲשֹׂתָ֗הּ אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֣י מְצַוְּךָ֮ הַיּוֹם֒ לְאַהֲבָ֞ה אֶת־יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ וְלָלֶ֥כֶת בִּדְרָכָ֖יו כָּל־הַיָּמִ֑ים וְיָסַפְתָּ֨לְךָ֥ עוֹד֙ שָׁלֹ֣שׁ עָרִ֔ים עַ֖ל הַשָּׁלֹ֥שׁ הָאֵֽלֶּה׃

[Deuteronomy 19:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.9/)

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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:529` 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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