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title: Deuteronomy 22:28 (JPS 1917) — If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Who acts: man, damsel. Deuteronomy 22:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 22:28 · JPS 1917

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If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

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**Who acts:** man, damsel · **What happens:** find, be, not betroth, lay, lie · **To what, where:** damsel, virgin, that, hold, tokens

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This is Deuteronomy 22:28 · 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, damsel), 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:612
# text = If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	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 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | a man | a damsel |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damsel=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a damsel | a virgin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **betroth** | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | infinitive |  | hold |  |  |  | on damsel | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on she=Destination |
| 5 | **lie** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with damsel | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **find** | infinitive · passive |  | tokens *= token* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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כִּֽי־יִמְצָ֣א אִ֗ישׁ נַעֲרָ֤ה בְתוּלָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־אֹרָ֔שָׂה וּתְפָשָׂ֖הּ וְשָׁכַ֣ב עִמָּ֑הּ וְנִמְצָֽאוּ׃

[Deuteronomy 22:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.28/)

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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:612` 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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