Deuteronomy 4:23 · JPS 1917
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you, and make you a graven image, even the likeness of any thing which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
Who acts: you, ye, LORD · What happens: take, forget, make, forbid, covenant · To what, where: heed, covenant, graven image, you, thing
This is Deuteronomy 4:23 · 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, LORD), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 4 yourselves | case |
| 4 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Take | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 forget | punct |
| 6 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 8 forget | mark |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 forget | nsubj |
| 8 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 covenant | det |
| 10 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forget | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 LORD | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 LORD | det |
| 13 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 covenant | nmod |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 God | nmod:poss |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 LORD | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | obj |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 covenant | acl:relcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 make | iobj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 image | det |
| 27 | graven | graven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 image | amod |
| 28 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 likeness | punct |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 likeness | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 likeness | det |
| 32 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 image | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 thing | case |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 thing | det |
| 35 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 likeness | nmod |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 forbidden | obj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 LORD | det |
| 38 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 forbidden | nsubj |
| 39 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 God | nmod:poss |
| 40 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 LORD | appos |
| 41 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 forbidden | aux |
| 42 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 thing | acl:relcl |
| 43 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 forbidden | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | heed | unto yourselves | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | |||
| 2 | forget | present | ye | the covenant of the LORD | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | LORD | the covenant of the LORD | with you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product | |||
| 4 | make | infinitive | you not said here | a graven image | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary image=Product | |||
| 5 | forbid | present · perfect | the LORD | any thing | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | covenant | the LORD | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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
הִשָּׁמְר֣וּ לָכֶ֗ם פֶּֽן־תִּשְׁכְּחוּ֙ אֶת־בְּרִ֤ית יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר כָּרַ֖ת עִמָּכֶ֑ם וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֨ם לָכֶ֥ם פֶּ֙סֶל֙ תְּמ֣וּנַת כֹּ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוְּךָ֖ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃
Deuteronomy 4:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DEU:135 of Mova's parse database.
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