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title: Deuteronomy 29:8 (JPS 1917) — Observe therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye m… · tree and pragmatics
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# Deuteronomy 29:8 · JPS 1917

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Observe therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may make all that ye do to prosper.

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**Who acts:** you, ye · **What happens:** observe, do, make, prosper, word · **To what, where:** words, all, covenant

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This is Deuteronomy 29:8 · 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 (you, ye), 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:814
# text = Observe therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may make all that ye do to prosper.
1	Observe	observe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- 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 | **observe** | imperative | you *not said here* | the words of this covenant |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | may | ye | all |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset all=Product |
| 4 | **do** | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 5 | **prosper** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | this covenant |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֗ם אֶת־דִּבְרֵי֙ הַבְּרִ֣ית הַזֹּ֔את וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם אֹתָ֑ם לְמַ֣עַן תַּשְׂכִּ֔ילוּ אֵ֖ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּעֲשֽׂוּן׃פ

[Deuteronomy 29:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.29.8/)

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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:814` 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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