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title: Deuteronomy 19:12 (JPS 1917) — then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and del… · tree and pragmatics
description: then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. Who acts: elders, man. Deuteronomy 19:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 19:12 · JPS 1917

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then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

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**Who acts:** elders, man · **What happens:** send, fetch, deliver, die · **To what, where:** man, hand

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This is Deuteronomy 19:12 · 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 (elders, man), 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:532
# text = then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | shall | the elders of man's city |  |  |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fetch** | infinitive | the elders of man's city *not said here* | man |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **deliver** | infinitive | the elders of man's city *not said here* | man |  | the hand of the avenger of blood |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **die** | may | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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וְשָֽׁלְחוּ֙ זִקְנֵ֣י עִיר֔וֹ וְלָקְח֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ מִשָּׁ֑ם וְנָתְנ֣וּ אֹת֗וֹ בְּיַ֛ד גֹּאֵ֥ל הַדָּ֖ם וָמֵֽת׃

[Deuteronomy 19:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.12/)

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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:532` 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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