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title: Deuteronomy 23:23 (JPS 1917) — But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. · tree and pragmatics
description: But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. Who acts: thou, vow. Deuteronomy 23:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 23:23 · JPS 1917

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But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

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**Who acts:** thou, vow · **What happens:** forbear, vow, be · **To what, where:** sin, thee

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This is Deuteronomy 23:23 · 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, vow), 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:636
# text = But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	forbear	forbear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	vow	vow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbear** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vow** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | vow | no sin |  | thee |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וְכִ֥י תֶחְדַּ֖ל לִנְדֹּ֑ר לֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֥ה בְךָ֖ חֵֽטְא׃

[Deuteronomy 23:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.23/)

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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:636` 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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