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title: Deuteronomy 22:12 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy cove… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself. Who acts: Thou. Deuteronomy 22:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 22:12 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** make, cover · **To what, where:** twisted cords, thee, thyself

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This is Deuteronomy 22:12 · 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:596
# text = Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	iobj	_	_
5	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	coverest	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | shall | Thou | twisted cords | thee |  |  | upon the four corners of thy covering | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset thou=Beneficiary cord=Product |
| 2 | **cover** | present | thou | thyself |  |  |  | wherewith *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thyself=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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גְּדִלִ֖ים תַּעֲשֶׂה־לָּ֑ךְ עַל־אַרְבַּ֛ע כַּנְפ֥וֹת כְּסוּתְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֥ר תְּכַסֶּה־בָּֽהּ׃ס

[Deuteronomy 22:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.12/)

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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:596` 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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