--- title: Deuteronomy 32:2 — My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the de… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb. Who acts: doctrine, speech, My. Deuteronomy 32:2 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Deuteronomy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/) / [chapter 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/32/) / 32:2 # Deuteronomy 32:2 דְּבָרִים **Who acts:** doctrine, speech, My · **What happens:** drop, distil, indoctrinate, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Deuteronomy 32:2 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — doctrine, speech, My — and what happens in the verse, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 34 chapters of Deuteronomy on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. יַעֲרֹ֤ף כַּמָּטָר֙ לִקְחִ֔י תִּזַּ֥ל כַּטַּ֖ל אִמְרָתִ֑י כִּשְׂעִירִ֣ם עֲלֵי־דֶ֔שֶׁא וְכִרְבִיבִ֖ים עֲלֵי־עֵֽשֶׂב׃ [My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.886/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:DEU:867 # text = יַעֲרֹ֤ף כַּמָּטָר֙ לִקְחִ֔י תִּזַּ֥ל כַּטַּ֖ל אִמְרָתִ֑י כִּשְׂעִירִ֣ם עֲלֵי־דֶ֔שֶׁא וְכִרְבִיבִ֖ים עֲלֵי־עֵֽשֶׂב׃ # verse = DEU.32.2 1 יַעֲרֹ֤ף עָרַף VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=may.it.drop|Ref=DEU_32:2!1|MId=o050320020011|Strong=6201|Frame=A0:050320020031;|Type=yiqtol 2-4 כַּמָּטָר֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 כַּ כְּ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=DEU_32:2!2|MId=o050320020021|Strong=3509a 3 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=DEU_32:2!2|MId=o050320020021ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 מָּטָר֙ מָטַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 obl _ Gloss=rain|Ref=DEU_32:2!2|MId=o050320020022|Strong=4306 5-6 לִקְחִ֔י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לִקְח לֶקַח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=teaching|Ref=DEU_32:2!3|MId=o050320020031|Strong=3948 6 ִ֔י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=DEU_32:2!3|MId=o050320020032|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 7 תִּזַּ֥ל נָזַל VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 1 parataxis _ Gloss=may.it.flow|Ref=DEU_32:2!4|MId=o050320020041|Strong=5140|Frame=A0:050320020061;|Type=yiqtol 8-10 כַּטַּ֖ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 כַּ כְּ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=DEU_32:2!5|MId=o050320020051|Strong=3509a 9 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 10 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=DEU_32:2!5|MId=o050320020051ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 10 טַּ֖ל טַל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=dew|Ref=DEU_32:2!5|MId=o050320020052|Strong=2919 11-12 אִמְרָתִ֑י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 אִמְרָת אִמְרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Gloss=speech|Ref=DEU_32:2!6|MId=o050320020061|Strong=0565 12 ִ֑י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=DEU_32:2!6|MId=o050320020062|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 13-14 כִּשְׂעִירִ֣ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 כִּ כְּ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=DEU_32:2!7|MId=o050320020071|Strong=3509a 14 שְׂעִירִ֣ם שָׂעִיר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 parataxis _ Gloss=showers.of.rain|Ref=DEU_32:2!7|MId=o050320020072|Strong=8164 15 עֲלֵי־ עַל ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=DEU_32:2!8|MId=o050320020081|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 16 דֶ֔שֶׁא דֶּשֶׁא NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=fresh.grass|Ref=DEU_32:2!9|MId=o050320020091|Strong=1877 17-19 וְכִרְבִיבִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_32:2!10|MId=o050320020101|Strong=2050b 18 כִ כְּ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=DEU_32:2!10|MId=o050320020102|Strong=3509a 19 רְבִיבִ֖ים רְבִיבִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 14 conj _ Gloss=showers|Ref=DEU_32:2!10|MId=o050320020103|Strong=7241 20 עֲלֵי־ עַל ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=DEU_32:2!11|MId=o050320020111|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 21 עֵֽשֶׂב עֵשֶׂב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 obl _ Gloss=vegetation|Ref=DEU_32:2!12|MId=o050320020121|Strong=6212|SpaceAfter=No 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=DEU_32:2!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַעֲרֹף *may it drop* | yiqtol · qal | לִקְח *teaching* | | | | | תִּזַּל *may it flow* | yiqtol · qal | אִמְרָת *speech* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} יְבַסַם כְּמִטְרָא אוּלְפָּנִי יִתְקַבַּל כְּטַלָא מֵימְרִי כְּרוּחֵי מִטְרָא דְנָשְׁבִין עַל דִתְאָה וְכִרְסִיסֵי מַלְקוֹשָׁא דִי עַל עִשְׂבָּא The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.886/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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