Deuteronomy 13:15 · JPS 1917
then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee;
Who acts: thou, search · What happens: inquire, make, ask, be, wrought · To what, where: search, truth, such abomination, midst
This is Deuteronomy 13:15 · 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 (thou, search), 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 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 inquire | advmod |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 inquire | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 inquire | nsubj |
| 4 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 make | cc |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 inquire | conj |
| 8 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ask | cc |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 inquire | conj |
| 12 | diligently | diligently | ADV | _ | 11 ask | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 wrought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wrought | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 behold | punct |
| 16 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 21 truth | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 truth | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 truth | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 truth | nsubj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 truth | cop |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wrought | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thing | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 thing | det |
| 25 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 truth | conj |
| 26 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 thing | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wrought | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 wrought | mark |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 abomination | amod |
| 30 | abomination | abomination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wrought | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 wrought | aux:pass |
| 32 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 inquire | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 midst | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 midst | det |
| 35 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wrought | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 thee | case |
| 37 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 midst | nmod |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 inquire | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | shall | thou | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | thou not said here | search | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset search=Product | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | thou not said here | diligently property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | search | truth and the thing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wrought | present · passive | such abomination | the midst of thee | tree rules |
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
וְדָרַשְׁתָּ֧ וְחָקַרְתָּ֧וְשָׁאַלְתָּ֖ הֵיטֵ֑ב וְהִנֵּ֤ה אֱמֶת֙ נָכ֣וֹן הַדָּבָ֔ר נֶעֶשְׂתָ֛ה הַתּוֹעֵבָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את בְּקִרְבֶּֽךָ׃
Deuteronomy 13:15: 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:397 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.397/