Deuteronomy 17:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.
Who acts: hand · What happens: be, put · To what, where: thing
This is Deuteronomy 17:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (hand), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hand | det |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 first | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 witnesses | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witnesses | det |
| 5 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hand | nmod |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 first | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 first | cop |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 first | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 put | mark |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 first | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hand | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hand | cc |
| 18 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 20 hand | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 first | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 people | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hand | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 first | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | the hand of the witnesses | upon thing; first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | the hand of the witnesses not said here | thing | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
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
יַ֣ד הָעֵדִ֞ים תִּֽהְיֶה־בּ֤וֹ בָרִאשֹׁנָה֙ לַהֲמִית֔וֹ וְיַ֥ד כָּל־הָעָ֖ם בָּאַחֲרֹנָ֑ה וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥ הָרָ֖ע מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃פ
Deuteronomy 17:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.
- So thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DEU:484 of Mova's parse database.
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