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title: Deuteronomy 4:8 (JPS 1917) — And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so… · tree and pragmatics
description: And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? Who acts: great nation, I. Deuteronomy 4:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 4:8 · JPS 1917

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And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

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**Who acts:** great nation, I · **What happens:** be, have, set · **To what, where:** statutes, law

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This is Deuteronomy 4:8 · 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 (great nation, I), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:DEU:120
# text = And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | what great nation |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | what great nation | statutes and ordinances |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statute=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | present | I | all law |  |  | before you; day |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme before you=Destination |

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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 {#hebrew}

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וּמִי֙ גּ֣וֹי גָּד֔וֹל אֲשֶׁר־ל֛וֹ חֻקִּ֥ים וּמִשְׁפָּטִ֖ים צַדִּיקִ֑ם כְּכֹל֙ הַתּוֹרָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את אֲשֶׁ֧ר אָנֹכִ֛י נֹתֵ֥ן לִפְנֵיכֶ֖ם הַיּֽוֹם׃

[Deuteronomy 4:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.8/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:120` of Mova's parse database.

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