--- title: Deuteronomy 19:19 (JPS 1917) — then shall ye do unto him, as he had purposed to do unto his brother… · tree and pragmatics description: then shall ye do unto him, as he had purposed to do unto his brother; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. Who acts: ye, witness, thou. 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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 (ye, witness, thou), 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:539 # text = then shall ye do unto him, as he had purposed to do unto his brother; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. 1 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 purposed purpose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 unto unto ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 21 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 22 away away ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=character, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | shall | ye | | | | then | unto witness | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **purpose** *speech: other* | past · perfect | witness | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | witness *not said here* | | | | | unto witness's brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put away** | shall | thou | the evil | | the midst of thee | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent evil=Goal | 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} וַעֲשִׂ֣יתֶם ל֔וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר זָמַ֖ם לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת לְאָחִ֑יו וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥ הָרָ֖ע מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃ [Deuteronomy 19:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:539` 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 19:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.538/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 19:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.540/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 19:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.19/)