Deuteronomy 20:20 · JPS 1917

Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, them thou mayest destroy and cut down, that thou mayest build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

Who acts: thou, trees, city, war · What happens: know, not be, destroy, cut down, build, make · To what, where: trees, bulwarks, war · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Deuteronomy 20:20 · 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, trees, city, war), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	3 trees	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 destroy	dep
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 knowest	obl
6	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 knowest	nsubj
7	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trees	acl:relcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 trees	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 trees	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 trees	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 trees	advmod
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knowest	ccomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 food	case
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trees	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 destroy	punct
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 destroy	obj
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 destroy	nsubj
18	mayest	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	19 destroy	aux
19	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cut	cc
21	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 destroy	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 cut	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 build	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 build	mark
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 build	nsubj
26	mayest	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	27 build	aux
27	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 destroy	advcl
28	bulwarks	bulwark	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 build	obj
29	against	against	ADP	_	31 city	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 city	det
31	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 build	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 maketh	nsubj
33	maketh	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 city	acl:relcl
34	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 maketh	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 thee	case
36	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 maketh	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fall	punct
38	until	until	SCONJ	_	40 fall	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fall	nsubj
40	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 build	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 destroy	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	thou		of the trees	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of which=Stimulus
2	not is a	present	trees = tree	trees	for food	tree rules
3	destroy	may	thou	trees = tree		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	cut down	infinitive	thou not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	build	may	thou	bulwarks	against the city	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bulwark=Product
6	make	present	the city	war	with thee	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product
7	fall	present	war			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

רַ֞ק עֵ֣ץ אֲשֶׁר־תֵּדַ֗ע כִּֽי־לֹא־עֵ֤ץ מַאֲכָל֙ ה֔וּא אֹת֥וֹ תַשְׁחִ֖ית וְכָרָ֑תָּ וּבָנִ֣יתָ מָצ֗וֹר עַל־הָעִיר֙ אֲשֶׁר־הִ֨וא עֹשָׂ֧ה עִמְּךָ֛ מִלְחָמָ֖ה עַ֥ד רִדְתָּֽהּ׃פ

Deuteronomy 20:20: 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:561 of Mova's parse database.

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