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title: Deuteronomy 23:7 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. Who acts: Thou, Ammonite. Deuteronomy 23:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 23:7 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

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**Who acts:** Thou, Ammonite · **What happens:** not seek, pacify · **To what, where:** peace

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This is Deuteronomy 23:7 · 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, Ammonite), 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:620
# text = Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	for	for	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	14	fixed	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **not** **seek** | shall | Thou | Ammonite's peace nor Ammonite's prosperity |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 2 | **pacify** |  | Ammonite |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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לֹא־תִדְרֹ֥שׁ שְׁלֹמָ֖ם וְטֹבָתָ֑ם כָּל־יָמֶ֖יךָ לְעוֹלָֽם׃ס

[Deuteronomy 23:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.7/)

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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:620` 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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