Deuteronomy 16:21 דְּבָרִים

Who acts: Thou · What happens: not plant, make · To what, where: Asherah, thee, altar, LORD

This is Deuteronomy 16:21 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Thou — and what happens in the verse to Asherah, thee, altar, LORD, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 34 chapters of Deuteronomy on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

לֹֽא־תִטַּ֥ע לְךָ֛ אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה כָּל־עֵ֑ץ אֵ֗צֶל מִזְבַּ֛ח יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּעֲשֶׂה־לָּֽךְ׃ס

Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	לֹֽא־	לֹא	ADV	_	2 תִטַּ֥ע	advmod	not
2	תִטַּ֥ע	נָטַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	root	root	you will plant
3	ל	לְ	ADP	_	4 ְךָ֛	case	for
4	ְךָ֛	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 תִטַּ֥ע	obl	yourself
5	אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה	אֲשֵׁרָה	PROPN	_	2 תִטַּ֥ע	obj	an Asherah pole
6	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה	appos	any
7	עֵ֑ץ	עֵץ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 כָּל־	compound:smixut	tree
8	אֵ֗צֶל	אֵצֶל	ADP	_	9 מִזְבַּ֛ח	case	beside
9	מִזְבַּ֛ח	מִזְבֵּחַ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 תִטַּ֥ע	obl	the altar
10	יְהוָ֥ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	9 מִזְבַּ֛ח	compound:smixut	of Yahweh
11	אֱלֹהֶ֖י	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	10 יְהוָ֥ה	appos	God
12	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 אֱלֹהֶ֖י	nmod:poss	your
13	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	14 תַּעֲשֶׂה־	mark	which
14	תַּעֲשֶׂה־	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	9 מִזְבַּ֛ח	acl:relcl	you will make
15	לּ	לְ	ADP	_	16 ָֽךְ	case	for
16	ָֽךְ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 תַּעֲשֶׂה־	obl	yourself
17	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	16 ָֽךְ	punct
18	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	16 ָֽךְ	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes
indirect: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
not תִטַּע you will plant	yiqtol · qal		אֲשֵׁרָה an Asherah pole
תַּעֲשֶׂה־ you will make	yiqtol · qal		מִזְבַּח the altar

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Onkelos

לָא תִצוֹב לָךְ אֲשֵׁרַת כָּל אִילָן בִּסְטַר מַדְבְּחָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָךְ דִי תַעְבֶּד לָךְ

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:DEU:470.

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