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title: Deuteronomy 20:6 (JPS 1917) — And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not use… · tree and pragmatics
description: And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof. Who acts: man. Deuteronomy 20:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 20:6 · JPS 1917

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And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, plant, not use, let, go, return · **To what, where:** vineyard, fruit, man

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This is Deuteronomy 20:6 · 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 (man), 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:547
# text = And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | what man |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **plant** | present · perfect | what man | a vineyard |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vineyard=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **use** | present · perfect | what man *not said here* | the fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **return** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto man's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **die** | present | man |  |  |  |  | in the battle | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in battle=Attribute |
| 8 | **use** | infinitive | another man | the fruit |  |  |  | thereof *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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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וּמִֽי־הָאִ֞ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־נָטַ֥ע כֶּ֙רֶם֙ וְלֹ֣א חִלְּל֔וֹ יֵלֵ֖ךְ וְיָשֹׁ֣ב לְבֵית֑וֹ פֶּן־יָמוּת֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה וְאִ֥ישׁ אַחֵ֖ר יְחַלְּלֶֽנּוּ׃

[Deuteronomy 20:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.20.6/)

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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:547` of Mova's parse database.

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