Deuteronomy 16:21 · JPS 1917
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.
Who acts: Thou · What happens: not plant, make · To what, where: Asherah, thee, altar, LORD
This is Deuteronomy 16:21 · 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), 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 plant | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 plant | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 plant | advmod |
| 4 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 plant | iobj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Asherah | det |
| 7 | Asherah | Asherah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plant | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kind | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 kind | det |
| 10 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Asherah | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kind | nmod |
| 13 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 15 altar | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 altar | det |
| 15 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plant | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 LORD | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 LORD | det |
| 18 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 altar | nmod |
| 19 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 God | nmod:poss |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 LORD | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 make | obj |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 make | nsubj |
| 24 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 25 make | aux |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 LORD | acl:relcl |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 make | iobj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plant | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not plant | shall | Thou | a Asherah of any kind of tree | thee | the altar of the LORD | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme asherah=Destination | ||
| 2 | make | shall | thou | the LORD | thee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset thou=Beneficiary which=Product |
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
לֹֽא־תִטַּ֥ע לְךָ֛ אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה כָּל־עֵ֑ץ אֵ֗צֶל מִזְבַּ֛ח יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּעֲשֶׂה־לָּֽךְ׃ס
Deuteronomy 16:21: 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:476 of Mova's parse database.
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