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title: Deuteronomy 24:7 (JPS 1917) — If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Is… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, and sell him; then that thief shall die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. Who acts: man, thief, thou. Deuteronomy 24:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Deuteronomy 24:7 · JPS 1917

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If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, and sell him; then that thief shall die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

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**Who acts:** man, thief, thou · **What happens:** find, steal, deal, sell, die, put away · **To what, where:** man, any, evil, midst

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This is Deuteronomy 24:7 · 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 (man, thief, 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:646
# text = If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, and sell him; then that thief shall die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	deal	deal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nsubj	_	_
39	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	parataxis	_	_
40	away	away	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	45	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | infinitive · passive |  | a man |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund | a man *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location any=Theme |
| 3 | **deal** | present | man |  |  |  |  | with Israel; as a slave | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with he=Theme |
| 4 | **sell** | infinitive | man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | shall | that thief |  |  |  | then |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **put away** | shall | thou | the evil |  | the midst of thee |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent evil=Goal |

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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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כִּי־יִמָּצֵ֣א אִ֗ישׁ גֹּנֵ֨ב נֶ֤פֶשׁ מֵאֶחָיו֙ מִבְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְהִתְעַמֶּר־בּ֖וֹ וּמְכָר֑וֹ וּמֵת֙ הַגַּנָּ֣ב הַה֔וּא וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥ הָרָ֖ע מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃

[Deuteronomy 24:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.7/)

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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:646` of Mova's parse database.

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