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title: Deuteronomy 21:22 (JPS 1917) — And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree; Who acts: man, thou. Deuteronomy 21:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 21:22 · JPS 1917

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And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;

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**Who acts:** man, thou · **What happens:** commit, put, hang · **To what, where:** sin, man, tree

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This is Deuteronomy 21:22 · 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 (man, 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:583
# text = And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
22	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	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 | **commit** | present · perfect | a man | a sin |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive · passive |  | man |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **hang** | present | thou | man |  | a tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on tree=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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וְכִֽי־יִהְיֶ֣ה בְאִ֗ישׁ חֵ֛טְא מִשְׁפַּט־מָ֖וֶת וְהוּמָ֑ת וְתָלִ֥יתָ אֹת֖וֹ עַל־עֵֽץ׃

[Deuteronomy 21:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.22/)

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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:583` 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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