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title: Deuteronomy 32:20 — And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their e… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. Who acts: LORD, I, end, daughters. Deuteronomy 32:20 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every 
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# Deuteronomy 32:20 דְּבָרִים

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**Who acts:** LORD, I, end, daughters, children · **What happens:** say, hide, see, be · **To what, where:** face, froward generation, faithfulness · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Deuteronomy 32:20 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 — LORD, I, end, daughters, children — and what happens in the verse to face, froward generation, faithfulness, 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.

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וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אַסְתִּ֤ירָה פָנַי֙ מֵהֶ֔ם אֶרְאֶ֖ה מָ֣ה אַחֲרִיתָ֑ם כִּ֣י ד֤וֹר תַּהְפֻּכֹת֙ הֵ֔מָּה בָּנִ֖ים לֹא־אֵמֻ֥ן בָּֽם׃

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[And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.905/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:885
# text = וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אַסְתִּ֤ירָה פָנַי֙ מֵהֶ֔ם אֶרְאֶ֖ה מָ֣ה אַחֲרִיתָ֑ם כִּ֣י ד֤וֹר תַּהְפֻּכֹת֙ הֵ֔מָּה בָּנִ֖ים לֹא־אֵמֻ֥ן בָּֽם׃
# verse = DEU.32.20
1-2	וַיֹּ֗אמֶר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_32:20!1|MId=o050320200011|Strong=2050b
2	יֹּ֗אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.said|Ref=DEU_32:20!1|MId=o050320200012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:050320190021;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	אַסְתִּ֤ירָה	סָתַר	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=1	2	ccomp	_	Gloss=I.will.hide|Ref=DEU_32:20!2|MId=o050320200021|Strong=5641|Frame=AA:050320190021;A0:050320200031;|Type=cohortative
4-5	פָנַי֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	פָנ	פָּנֶה	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	Gloss=face|Ref=DEU_32:20!3|MId=o050320200031|Strong=6440
5	ַי֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=my|Ref=DEU_32:20!3|MId=o050320200032|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
6-7	מֵהֶ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=DEU_32:20!4|MId=o050320200041|Strong=4480
7	הֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	Gloss=them|Ref=DEU_32:20!4|MId=o050320200042|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
8	אֶרְאֶ֖ה	רָאָה	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=I.will.see|Ref=DEU_32:20!5|MId=o050320200051|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:050320190021;A1:050320200061;|Type=yiqtol
9	מָ֣ה	מָה	PRON	_	PronType=Int	8	ccomp	_	Gloss=what?|Ref=DEU_32:20!6|MId=o050320200061|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative
10-11	אַחֲרִיתָ֑ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	אַחֲרִית	אַחֲרִית	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Gloss=be].their.end|Ref=DEU_32:20!7|MId=o050320200071|Strong=0319
11	ָ֑ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=[will|Ref=DEU_32:20!7|MId=o050320200072|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
12	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	13	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=DEU_32:20!8|MId=o050320200081|Strong=3588
13	ד֤וֹר	דּוֹר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	Gloss=[are].a.generation|Ref=DEU_32:20!9|MId=o050320200091|Strong=1755
14	תַּהְפֻּכֹת֙	תַּהְפֻּכֹות	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	13	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.perversiti(es)|Ref=DEU_32:20!10|MId=o050320200101|Strong=8419
15	הֵ֔מָּה	הֵמָּה	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	Gloss=they|Ref=DEU_32:20!11|MId=o050320200111|Strong=1992|Type=personal
16	בָּנִ֖ים	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	Gloss=children|Ref=DEU_32:20!12|MId=o050320200121|Strong=1121
17	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	_	16	acl	_	Gloss=[whom].not|Ref=DEU_32:20!13|MId=o050320200131|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No
18	אֵמֻ֥ן	אֵמֻן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Gloss=faithfulness|Ref=DEU_32:20!14|MId=o050320200141|Strong=0529
19-20	בָּֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	20	case	_	Gloss=[is].in|Ref=DEU_32:20!15|MId=o050320200151|Strong=0871a
20	ָֽם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	Gloss=them|Ref=DEU_32:20!15|MId=o050320200152|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	20	punct	_	Ref=DEU_32:20!15
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: yes
- the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| אַסְתִּירָה *I will hide* | cohortative · hiphil | פָנ *face* |  |  |  |
| אֶרְאֶה *I will see* | yiqtol · qal |  | מָה *what?* |  |  |

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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}

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וַאֲמַר אֶסַלֵק שְׁכִנְתִּי מִנְהוֹן גְלֵי קֳדָמַי מָה יְהֵי בְסוֹפֵיהוֹן אֲרֵי דָרָא דְאַשְׁנִיוּ אִנוּן בְנַיָא דִלֵית בְּהוֹן הֵימָנוּ

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.905/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:DEU:885`.

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