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title: Deuteronomy 24:17 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge. Who acts: Thou. Deuteronomy 24:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 24:17 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** not pervert, take, pledge · **To what, where:** justice, raiment

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This is Deuteronomy 24:17 · 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:656
# text = Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge.
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	pervert	pervert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fatherless	fatherless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	pledge	pledge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	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** **pervert** | shall | Thou | the justice |  |  |  | due the stranger or the fatherless | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | the widow's raiment |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raiment=Theme |
| 3 | **pledge** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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לֹ֣א תַטֶּ֔ה מִשְׁפַּ֖ט גֵּ֣ר יָת֑וֹם וְלֹ֣א תַחֲבֹ֔ל בֶּ֖גֶד אַלְמָנָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 24:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.17/)

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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:656` 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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