--- title: Deuteronomy 30:19 (JPS 1917) — I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have… · tree and pragmatics description: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; Who acts: I, thou. 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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 (I, thou), 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:853 # text = I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 witness witness VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 against against ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 17 before before ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 obl _ _ 19 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 curse curse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 31 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 35 mayest may AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | I | heaven and earth | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent heaven=Recipient | | 2 | **witness** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | day | against you | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **set** | present · perfect | I | life and death and the blessing and the curse | | thee | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme before thou=Destination | | 4 | **choose** | infinitive | | life | | | | therefore *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 5 | **live** | may | thou | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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} הַעִידֹ֨תִי בָכֶ֣ם הַיּוֹם֮ אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם וְאֶת־הָאָרֶץ֒ הַחַיִּ֤ים וְהַמָּ֙וֶת֙ נָתַ֣תִּי לְפָנֶ֔יךָ הַבְּרָכָ֖ה וְהַקְּלָלָ֑ה וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙ בַּֽחַיִּ֔ים לְמַ֥עַן תִּחְיֶ֖ה אַתָּ֥ה וְזַרְעֶֽךָ׃ [Deuteronomy 30:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.30.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:853` 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. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 30:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.852/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 30:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.854/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 30:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.30.19/)