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title: Deuteronomy 21:11 (JPS 1917) — and seest among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a… · tree and pragmatics
description: and seest among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; Who acts: thou. Deuteronomy 21:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 21:11 · JPS 1917

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and seest among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** see, have, take · **To what, where:** woman, desire, thee

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This is Deuteronomy 21:11 · 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 (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:572
# text = and seest among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	seest	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present |  | a woman of goodly form |  |  |  | among the captives | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | thou | a desire |  |  |  | unto woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | would | thou *not said here* | woman |  | thee |  | to wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to thou=Destination |

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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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וְרָאִיתָ֙ בַּשִּׁבְיָ֔ה אֵ֖שֶׁת יְפַת־תֹּ֑אַר וְחָשַׁקְתָּ֣ בָ֔הּ וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ לְךָ֖ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

[Deuteronomy 21:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.11/)

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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:572` 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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