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title: Deuteronomy 24:16 (JPS 1917) — The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shal… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin. Deuteronomy 24:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 24:16 · JPS 1917

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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

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**What happens:** not put, put · **To what, where:** fathers, children, man

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This is Deuteronomy 24:16 · 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: 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:655
# text = The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **put** | shall · passive |  | the fathers |  |  |  | to death; for the children | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **put** | shall · passive |  | the children |  |  |  | to death; for the fathers | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **put** | shall · passive |  | every man |  |  |  | to death; for man's own sin | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=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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לֹֽא־יוּמְת֤וּ אָבוֹת֙ עַל־בָּנִ֔ים וּבָנִ֖ים לֹא־יוּמְת֣וּ עַל־אָב֑וֹת אִ֥ישבְּחֶטְא֖וֹ יוּמָֽתוּ׃ס

[Deuteronomy 24:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.16/)

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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:655` 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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