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title: Deuteronomy 23:12 (JPS 1917) — But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe himself in w… · tree and pragmatics
description: But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp. Who acts: evening, man, sun. Deuteronomy 23:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 23:12 · JPS 1917

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But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp.

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**Who acts:** evening, man, sun · **What happens:** come on, bathe, be, come · **To what, where:** camp

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This is Deuteronomy 23:12 · 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 (evening, man, sun), 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:625
# text = But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	expl	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
28	within	within	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **come on** | present | evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bathe** | shall | man | camp |  |  |  | in water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination in water=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | may | man |  |  |  |  | within the camp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וְהָיָ֥ה לִפְנֽוֹת־עֶ֖רֶב יִרְחַ֣ץ בַּמָּ֑יִם וּכְבֹ֣א הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ יָבֹ֖א אֶל־תּ֥וֹךְ הַֽמַּחֲנֶה׃

[Deuteronomy 23:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.12/)

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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:625` 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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