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title: Deuteronomy 23:14 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, whe… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee. Who acts: thou. Deuteronomy 23:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 23:14 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** have, sit down, dig, turn back, cover, come · **To what, where:** paddle, that, thee

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This is Deuteronomy 23:14 · 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:627
# text = And thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	paddle	paddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sittest	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
25	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	obj	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | thou | a paddle |  |  |  | among thy weapons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paddle=Patient |
| 2 | **sit down** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | abroad, down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dig** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | therewith *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn back** | shall | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cover** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Destination |
| 6 | **come** | present |  |  |  | thee |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from thou=Initial\_Location |

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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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וְיָתֵ֛ד תִּהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֖ עַל־אֲזֵנֶ֑ךָ וְהָיָה֙ בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ֣ ח֔וּץ וְחָפַרְתָּ֣ה בָ֔הּ וְשַׁבְתָּ֖ וְכִסִּ֥יתָ אֶת־צֵאָתֶֽךָ׃

[Deuteronomy 23:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.14/)

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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:627` 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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