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title: Deuteronomy 19:17 (JPS 1917) — then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand befo… · tree and pragmatics
description: then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days. Who acts: controversy, men, priests. Deuteronomy 19:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 19:17 · JPS 1917

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then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days.

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**Who acts:** controversy, men, priests · **What happens:** be, stand · **To what, where:** men

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This is Deuteronomy 19:17 · 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 (controversy, men, priests), 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:537
# text = then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days.
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
2	both	both	DET	PDT	_	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	controversy	controversy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the controversy | both men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | shall | both men |  |  |  | before the LORD and the priests and the judges; then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before lord=Location |
| 3 | **is** | shall | the priests |  |  |  | in that days |  | tree rules |

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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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וְעָמְד֧וּ שְׁנֵֽי־הָאֲנָשִׁ֛ים אֲשֶׁר־לָהֶ֥ם הָרִ֖יב לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה לִפְנֵ֤י הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ וְהַשֹּׁ֣פְטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִהְי֖וּ בַּיָּמִ֥ים הָהֵֽם׃

[Deuteronomy 19:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.17/)

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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:537` 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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