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title: Deuteronomy 20:9 (JPS 1917) — And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that captains of hosts shall be appointed at the head of the people. Who acts: officers, end. Deuteronomy 20:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 20:9 · JPS 1917

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And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that captains of hosts shall be appointed at the head of the people.

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**Who acts:** officers, end · **What happens:** make, speak, appoint · **To what, where:** end, captains, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 20:9 · 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 (officers, end), 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:550
# text = And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that captains of hosts shall be appointed at the head of the people.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect | the officers | a end |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | a end *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appoint** | shall · passive |  | captains of hosts |  | the head of the people |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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וְהָיָ֛ה כְּכַלֹּ֥ת הַשֹּׁטְרִ֖ים לְדַבֵּ֣ר אֶל־הָעָ֑ם וּפָֽקְד֛וּ שָׂרֵ֥י צְבָא֖וֹת בְּרֹ֥אשׁ הָעָֽם׃ס

[Deuteronomy 20:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.20.9/)

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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:550` 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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