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title: Deuteronomy 21:2 (JPS 1917) — then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall meas… · tree and pragmatics
description: then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain. Who acts: elders, cities. Deuteronomy 21:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 21:2 · JPS 1917

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then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain.

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**Who acts:** elders, cities · **What happens:** come, measure, be, slain

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This is Deuteronomy 21:2 · 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 (elders, cities), 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:563
# text = then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain.
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	measure	measure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	round	round	ADV	RB	_	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	slain	slain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | thy elders and thy judges |  |  |  | then | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** | shall | elders *= elder* |  |  |  |  | unto the cities | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the cities |  |  |  |  | about LORD; round *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **slain** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וְיָצְא֥וּ זְקֵנֶ֖יךָ וְשֹׁפְטֶ֑יךָ וּמָדְדוּ֙ אֶל־הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר סְבִיבֹ֥ת הֶחָלָֽל׃

[Deuteronomy 21:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.2/)

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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:563` 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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