--- title: Deuteronomy 21:20 (JPS 1917) — and they shall say unto the elders of his city: 'This our son is stu… · tree and pragmatics description: and they shall say unto the elders of his city: 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he doth not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.' Who acts: father, son, man. 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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 (father, son, 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:581 # text = and they shall say unto the elders of his city: 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he doth not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.' 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 13 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 14 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 stubborn stubborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 rebellious rebellious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 doth do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 hearken hearken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 glutton glutton NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 drunkard drunkard NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | father | | | | | unto the elders of man's city | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | our son | | | | | stubborn *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | our son *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **hearken** | present · do-support | man | | | | | to our voice | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | man | a glutton and a drunkard | | | | | 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} וְאָמְר֞וּ אֶל־זִקְנֵ֣י עִיר֗וֹ בְּנֵ֤נוּ זֶה֙ סוֹרֵ֣ר וּמֹרֶ֔ה אֵינֶ֥נּוּ שֹׁמֵ֖עַ בְּקֹלֵ֑נוּ זוֹלֵ֖ל וְסֹבֵֽא׃ [Deuteronomy 21:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:581` 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. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 21:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.580/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 21:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.582/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 21:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.20/)