Deuteronomy 16:19 · JPS 1917
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Who acts: Thou, gift · What happens: not wrest, not respect, take, blind, pervert, word · To what, where: judgment, persons, gift, eyes, words, righteous
This is Deuteronomy 16:19 · 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, gift), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 wrest | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrest | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wrest | advmod |
| 4 | wrest | wrest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrest | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 respect | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 respect | nsubj |
| 8 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 10 respect | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 respect | advmod |
| 10 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wrest | parataxis |
| 11 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 respect | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 take | cc |
| 14 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 take | nsubj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wrest | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gift | det |
| 18 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 blind | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 blind | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 gift | det |
| 22 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blind | nsubj |
| 23 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 blind | aux |
| 24 | blind | blind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eyes | det |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 blind | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wise | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wise | det |
| 29 | wise | wise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eyes | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pervert | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 pervert | cc |
| 32 | pervert | pervert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 blind | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 words | det |
| 34 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pervert | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 righteous | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 righteous | det |
| 37 | righteous | righteous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 words | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wrest | shall | Thou | judgment | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not respect | shall | thou | persons | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | shall | thou | a gift | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blind | present · do-support | a gift | the eyes of the wise | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pervert | infinitive | a gift not said here | the words of the righteous | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | word | the righteous | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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
לֹא־תַטֶּ֣ה מִשְׁפָּ֔ט לֹ֥א תַכִּ֖יר פָּנִ֑ים וְלֹא־תִקַּ֣ח שֹׁ֔חַד כִּ֣י הַשֹּׁ֗חַד יְעַוֵּר֙ עֵינֵ֣י חֲכָמִ֔ים וִֽיסַלֵּ֖ף דִּבְרֵ֥י צַדִּיקִֽם׃
Deuteronomy 16:19: 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:474 of Mova's parse database.
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