Deuteronomy 17:8 · JPS 1917
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose.
Who acts: matter, thou, LORD, controversy · What happens: arise, get up, choose, matter · To what, where: judgment, thee, place
This is Deuteronomy 17:8 · 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 (matter, thou, LORD, controversy), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 arise | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 arise | expl |
| 3 | arise | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 arise | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arise | nsubj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 matter | amod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 thee | case |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 hard | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 judgment | case |
| 11 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arise | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blood | punct |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 blood | case |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blood | cc |
| 16 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blood | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 plea | punct |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 plea | case |
| 19 | plea | plea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blood | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 plea | cc |
| 21 | plea | plea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plea | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stroke | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stroke | cc |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 stroke | case |
| 25 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stroke | cc |
| 27 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stroke | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 matters | punct |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 matters | advmod |
| 30 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arise | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 controversy | case |
| 32 | controversy | controversy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 matters | nmod |
| 33 | within | within | ADP | _ | 35 gates | case |
| 34 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 gates | nmod:poss |
| 35 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 controversy | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 arise | punct |
| 37 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 arise | advmod |
| 38 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 40 arise | aux |
| 39 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 arise | nsubj |
| 40 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 get | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 get | cc |
| 43 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 arise | conj |
| 44 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 get | obj |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 get | compound:prt |
| 46 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 48 place | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 place | det |
| 48 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 get | obl |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 choose | obj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 LORD | det |
| 51 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 choose | nsubj |
| 52 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 53 God | nmod:poss |
| 53 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 LORD | appos |
| 54 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 choose | aux |
| 55 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 place | acl:relcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 arise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise a condition, not said to happen | present | a matter between blood and blood and plea and plea between stroke and stroke | judgment; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in judgment=Location | ||||
| 2 | arise | shall | thou | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get up | infinitive | thou not said here | thee | unto the place | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | choose | shall | the LORD | the place | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 5 | matter | controversy within thy gates | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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
כִּ֣י יִפָּלֵא֩ מִמְּךָ֨דָבָ֜ר לַמִּשְׁפָּ֗ט בֵּֽין־דָּ֨ם ׀ לְדָ֜ם בֵּֽין־דִּ֣ין לְדִ֗ין וּבֵ֥ין נֶ֙גַע֙ לָנֶ֔גַע דִּבְרֵ֥י רִיבֹ֖ת בִּשְׁעָרֶ֑יךָ וְקַמְתָּ֣ וְעָלִ֔יתָ אֶל־הַמָּק֔וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִבְחַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ בּֽוֹ׃
Deuteronomy 17:8: 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:486 of Mova's parse database.
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