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title: Deuteronomy 19:21 (JPS 1917) — And thine eye shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thine eye shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Who acts: eye. Deuteronomy 19:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 19:21 · JPS 1917

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And thine eye shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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**Who acts:** eye · **What happens:** not pity

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This is Deuteronomy 19:21 · 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 (eye), 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:541
# text = And thine eye shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	pity	pity	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pity** | shall | thine eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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וְלֹ֥א תָח֖וֹס עֵינֶ֑ךָ נֶ֣פֶשׁ בְּנֶ֗פֶשׁ עַ֤יִן בְּעַ֙יִן֙ שֵׁ֣ן בְּשֵׁ֔ן יָ֥ד בְּיָ֖ד רֶ֥גֶל בְּרָֽגֶל׃ס

[Deuteronomy 19:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.21/)

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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:541` 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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