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title: Deuteronomy 23:20 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest. Who acts: Thou. Deuteronomy 23:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 23:20 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** not lend, lend, interest · **To what, where:** thing, money, victuals

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This is Deuteronomy 23:20 · 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:633
# text = Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest.
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	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	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	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	victuals	victual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	lent	lend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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** **lend** | shall | Thou |  |  |  |  | upon interest to thy brother | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lend** | present · passive |  | any thing |  |  |  | upon interest | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **interest** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **interest** |  |  | victuals |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **interest** |  |  | any thing |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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־תַשִּׁ֣יךְ לְאָחִ֔יךָ נֶ֥שֶׁךְ כֶּ֖סֶף נֶ֣שֶׁךְ אֹ֑כֶל נֶ֕שֶׁךְ כָּל־דָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִשָּֽׁךְ׃

[Deuteronomy 23:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.20/)

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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:633` 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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