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title: Deuteronomy 28:14 (JPS 1917) — and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you t… · tree and pragmatics
description: and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. Who acts: I. Deuteronomy 28:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 28:14 · JPS 1917

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and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not turn, command, go, serve · **To what, where:** any, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 28:14 · 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 (I), 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:751
# text = and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	command	command	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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** **turn** | shall |  |  |  | any |  | to the right hand or the left *result*; aside *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from any=Initial\_State to hand=Result |
| 2 | **command** | present | I | the words |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after other gods |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | to-infinitive |  | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute |

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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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וְלֹ֣א תָס֗וּר מִכָּל־הַדְּבָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֜י מְצַוֶּ֥ה אֶתְכֶ֛ם הַיּ֖וֹם יָמִ֣ין וּשְׂמֹ֑אול לָלֶ֗כֶת אַחֲרֵ֛י אֱלֹהִ֥ים אֲחֵרִ֖ים לְעָבְדָֽם׃ס

[Deuteronomy 28:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.14/)

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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:751` 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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