--- title: Deuteronomy 19:14 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old ti… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. Who acts: Thou, elders, LORD, thine. Deuteronomy 19:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.534/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Deuteronomy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/) / [chapter 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/19/) / [19:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.14/) / JPS 1 # Deuteronomy 19:14 · JPS 1917 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. **Who acts:** Thou, elders, LORD, thine · **What happens:** not remove, set, inherit, give, possess · **To what, where:** landmark, inheritance, land, thee This is Deuteronomy 19:14 · 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, elders, LORD, thine), 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:534 # text = Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 2 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 remove remove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 landmark landmark NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 15 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 obj _ _ 22 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 inherit inherit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 34 giveth give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 35 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 iobj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 possess possess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **remove** | shall | Thou | thy neighbour's landmark | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landmark=Theme | | 2 | **set** | present · perfect | elders *= elder* | thy neighbour's landmark | | thine inheritance | time | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in inheritance=Destination | | 3 | **inherit** | shall | thou | thine inheritance | | the land | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 4 | **give** | present | the LORD | the land | thee | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **possess** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | landmark | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 6 | **inherit** | | thine | | | | | | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} לֹ֤א תַסִּיג֙ גְּב֣וּל רֵֽעֲךָ֔ אֲשֶׁ֥ר גָּבְל֖וּ רִאשֹׁנִ֑ים בְּנַחֲלָֽתְךָ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּנְחַ֔ל בָּאָ֕רֶץ אֲשֶׁר֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֖ לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ס [Deuteronomy 19:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:534` 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. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 19:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.533/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 19:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.535/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 19:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.14/)