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title: Deuteronomy 29:17 (JPS 1917) — lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, w… · tree and pragmatics
description: lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; Who acts: man, heart, root. Deuteronomy 29:17 in JPS 1917 with i
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# Deuteronomy 29:17 · JPS 1917

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lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

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**Who acts:** man, heart, root · **What happens:** be, turn away, go, serve, bear · **To what, where:** gods, gall

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This is Deuteronomy 29:17 · 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 (man, heart, root), 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:823
# text = lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
1	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	_	4	expl	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	case	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turneth	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	there	there	PRON	EX	_	43	expl	_	_
42	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
44	among	among	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	beareth	bear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
50	gall	gall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	wormwood	wormwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- 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 | **be** | should | man or woman or family or tribe |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn away** | present | heart |  |  |  | day | from the LORD; away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from lord=Source |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* | the gods of that nations |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute |
| 5 | **be** | should | a root |  |  | there |  | among you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among you=Location |
| 6 | **bear** | present | a root | gall and wormwood |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gall=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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פֶּן־יֵ֣שׁ בָּ֠כֶם אִ֣ישׁ אוֹ־אִשָּׁ֞ה א֧וֹ מִשְׁפָּחָ֣ה אוֹ־שֵׁ֗בֶט אֲשֶׁר֩ לְבָב֨וֹ פֹנֶ֤ה הַיּוֹם֙ מֵעִם֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ לָלֶ֣כֶת לַעֲבֹ֔ד אֶת־אֱלֹהֵ֖י הַגּוֹיִ֣ם הָהֵ֑ם פֶּן־יֵ֣שׁ בָּכֶ֗ם שֹׁ֛רֶשׁ פֹּרֶ֥ה רֹ֖אשׁ וְלַעֲנָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 29:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.29.17/)

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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:823` 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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