--- title: Deuteronomy 21:21 (JPS 1917) — And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die… · tree and pragmatics description: And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. Who acts: men, man, thou, Israel. 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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 (men, man, thou, Israel), 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:582 # text = And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 stone stone VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 die die VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 21 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 22 away away ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stone** | shall | all men of man's city | | husband | | | with stones | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with stone=Theme | | 2 | **die** | present | man | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **put away** | shall | thou | the evil | | the midst of thee | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent evil=Goal | | 4 | **hear** | shall | all Israel | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **fear** | infinitive | all Israel *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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} וּ֠רְגָמֻהוּ כָּל־אַנְשֵׁ֨י עִיר֤וֹ בָֽאֲבָנִים֙ וָמֵ֔ת וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥ הָרָ֖ע מִקִּרְבֶּ֑ךָ וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׁמְע֥וּ וְיִרָֽאוּ׃ס [Deuteronomy 21:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:582` 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 21:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.581/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 21:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.583/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 21:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.21/)