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title: Deuteronomy 26:3 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him: 'I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the land which the LORD swore unto our fathers to give us.' Who acts: thou, priest, I, LORD. Deuteronomy 26:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the
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# Deuteronomy 26:3 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him: 'I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the land which the LORD swore unto our fathers to give us.'

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**Who acts:** thou, priest, I, LORD · **What happens:** come, be, say, profess, swear, give · **To what, where:** land, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 26:3 · 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, priest, I, 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:683
# text = And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him: 'I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the land which the LORD swore unto our fathers to give us.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	profess	profess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
47	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	iobj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
49	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | unto the priest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | shall | the priest |  |  |  | in that days |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **profess** | present | I |  |  |  | day | unto the LORD | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | present · passive | I |  |  |  |  | unto the land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **swear** | past | the LORD | the land |  |  |  | unto our fathers | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 7 | **give** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |

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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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וּבָאתָ֙ אֶל־הַכֹּהֵ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִהְיֶ֖ה בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֑ם וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֵלָ֗יו הִגַּ֤דְתִּי הַיּוֹם֙ לַיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ כִּי־בָ֙אתִי֙ אֶל־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר נִשְׁבַּ֧ע יְהוָ֛ה לַאֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ לָ֥תֶת לָֽנוּ׃

[Deuteronomy 26:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.26.3/)

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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:683` 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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