--- title: Deuteronomy 21:8 (JPS 1917) — Forgive, O LORD, Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast redeemed, and suf… · tree and pragmatics description: Forgive, O LORD, Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of Thy people Israel.' And the blood shall be forgiven them. Who acts: you, Thou. 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And the blood shall be forgiven them. **Who acts:** you, Thou · **What happens:** forgive, redeem, not suffer, remain · **To what, where:** people, innocent blood, midst, blood This is Deuteronomy 21:8 · 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 (you, 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:569 # text = Forgive, O LORD, Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of Thy people Israel.' And the blood shall be forgiven them. 1 Forgive forgive VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 O o INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 4 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 8 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 11 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 12 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 redeemed redeem VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 suffer suffer VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 18 innocent innocent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 31 And and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 forgiven forgive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forgive** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy people | | | | LORD *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 2 | **redeem** | present · perfect | Thou | Thy people | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | | 3 | **not** **suffer** | infinitive | you *not said here* | innocent blood | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **remain** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | the midst of Thy people | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location | | 5 | **forgive** | shall · passive | | the blood | | | | | tree rules | 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} כַּפֵּר֩ לְעַמְּךָ֨יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל אֲשֶׁר־פָּדִ֙יתָ֙ יְהוָ֔ה וְאַל־תִּתֵּן֙ דָּ֣ם נָקִ֔י בְּקֶ֖רֶב עַמְּךָ֣ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְנִכַּפֵּ֥ר לָהֶ֖ם הַדָּֽם׃ [Deuteronomy 21:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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