Deuteronomy 12:23 · JPS 1917

Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

Who acts: you, blood, thou · What happens: be, not eat · To what, where: blood, life

This is Deuteronomy 12:23 · 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, blood, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 stedfast	advmod
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 stedfast	cop
3	stedfast	stedfast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 eating	mark
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eating	advmod
6	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stedfast	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blood	det
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 life	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 life	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 blood	det
12	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 life	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 life	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 life	det
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stedfast	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 eat	cc
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 eat	nsubj
19	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	21 eat	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 eat	advmod
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stedfast	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 life	det
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 flesh	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 flesh	det
26	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stedfast	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		stedfast property	tree rules
2	not eat	gerund	you not said here	the blood		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
3	is a	present	the blood	the life		tree rules
4	not eat	shall	thou	the life	with the flesh	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient

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

רַ֣ק חֲזַ֗ק לְבִלְתִּי֙ אֲכֹ֣ל הַדָּ֔ם כִּ֥י הַדָּ֖ם ה֣וּא הַנָּ֑פֶשׁ וְלֹא־תֹאכַ֥ל הַנֶּ֖פֶשׁ עִם־הַבָּשָֽׂר׃

Deuteronomy 12:23: 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:373 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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