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# Deuteronomy 23:21 · JPS 1917

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Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD · **What happens:** lend, not lend, bless, put, go in, possess · **To what, where:** thee, all, hand

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This is Deuteronomy 23:21 · 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, LORD), 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:634
# text = Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
1	Unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
15	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
28	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
33	puttest	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
41	whither	whither	SCONJ	WRB	_	43	mark	_	_
42	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nsubj	_	_
43	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | may | thou |  |  |  |  | unto a foreigner; upon interest | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **lend** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | unto thy brother; upon interest | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bless** | may | the LORD | thee |  | all |  | in the land | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | present | thou | thy hand |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent that=Asset hand=Goal |
| 5 | **go in** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **possess** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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לַנָּכְרִ֣י תַשִּׁ֔יךְ וּלְאָחִ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תַשִּׁ֑יךְ לְמַ֨עַן יְבָרֶכְךָ֜ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ בְּכֹל֙ מִשְׁלַ֣ח יָדֶ֔ךָ עַל־הָאָ֕רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֥ה בָא־שָׁ֖מָּה לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ס

[Deuteronomy 23:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.21/)

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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:634` of Mova's parse database.

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