---
title: Deuteronomy 19:16 (JPS 1917) — If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted… · tree and pragmatics
description: If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him; Who acts: unrighteous witness. Deuteronomy 19:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.536/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [19:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.16/) / JPS 1

# Deuteronomy 19:16 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him;

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** unrighteous witness · **What happens:** rise up, bear · **To what, where:** perverted witness

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Deuteronomy 19:16 · 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 (unrighteous witness), 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:536
# text = If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him;
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	unrighteous	unrighteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	perverted	pervert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=other

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | infinitive | a unrighteous witness |  |  |  |  | against any man | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against man=Location |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive | a unrighteous witness *not said here* | perverted witness |  |  |  | against witness | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
כִּֽי־יָק֥וּם עֵד־חָמָ֖ס בְּאִ֑ישׁ לַעֲנ֥וֹת בּ֖וֹ סָרָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 19:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.16/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:536` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Deuteronomy 19:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.535/)
- next →: [Deuteronomy 19:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.537/)
- ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 19:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.16/)