--- title: Deuteronomy 25:15 (JPS 1917) — A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measur… · tree and pragmatics description: A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Who acts: thou, days, LORD. 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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, days, 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:676 # text = A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 just just ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 5 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 6 shalt shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 8 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 just just ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 15 shalt shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 17 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 25 upon upon ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 obj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 giveth give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 34 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 iobj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed indirect=1, hedge=0, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | shall | thou | perfect weight | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient | | 2 | **have** | shall | thou | perfect measure | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient | | 3 | **is** | may | thy days | | | | | upon the land; long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | present | the LORD | the land | thee | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient which=Theme | 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} אֶ֣בֶן שְׁלֵמָ֤ה וָצֶ֙דֶק֙ יִֽהְיֶה־לָּ֔ךְ אֵיפָ֧ה שְׁלֵמָ֛ה וָצֶ֖דֶק יִֽהְיֶה־לָּ֑ךְ לְמַ֙עַן֙ יַאֲרִ֣יכוּ יָמֶ֔יךָ עַ֚ל הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לָֽךְ׃ [Deuteronomy 25:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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