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title: Deuteronomy 22:15 (JPS 1917) — then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring… · tree and pragmatics
description: then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate. Who acts: father. Deuteronomy 22:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 22:15 · JPS 1917

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then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** take, bring · **To what, where:** tokens

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This is Deuteronomy 22:15 · 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 (father), 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:599
# text = then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate.
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tokens	token	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	virginity	virginity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **take** | shall | the father of the damsel and wife's mother |  |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | the father of the damsel and wife's mother *not said here* | the tokens of the damsel's virginity |  |  |  | unto the elders of the city in the gate; forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent token=Theme |

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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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וְלָקַ֛ח אֲבִ֥י הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖ה וְאִמָּ֑הּ וְהוֹצִ֜יאוּ אֶת־בְּתוּלֵ֧י הַֽנַּעֲרָ֛ה אֶל־זִקְנֵ֥י הָעִ֖יר הַשָּֽׁעְרָה׃

[Deuteronomy 22:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.15/)

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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:599` of Mova's parse database.

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