--- title: Deuteronomy 4:36 (JPS 1917) — Out of heaven He made thee to hear His voice, that He might instruct… · tree and pragmatics description: Out of heaven He made thee to hear His voice, that He might instruct thee; and upon earth He made thee to see His great fire; and thou didst hear His words out of the midst of the fire. Who acts: God, thee, thou. 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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 (God, thee, thou), 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:148 # text = Out of heaven He made thee to hear His voice, that He might instruct thee; and upon earth He made thee to see His great fire; and thou didst hear His words out of the midst of the fire. 1 Out out ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 instruct instruct VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 16 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 upon upon ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 21 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nsubj _ _ 32 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 34 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 out out ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | God | thee | | heaven | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | thee *not said here* | God's voice | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 3 | **instruct** *speech: other* | might | God | thee | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | | 4 | **make** | past | God | thee | | | | upon earth | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | thee *not said here* | God's great fire | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | | 6 | **hear** | past · do-support | thou | God's words | | the midst of the fire | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 7 | **fire** | | God | | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **word** | | God | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 {#hebrew} מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֛יִם הִשְׁמִֽיעֲךָ֥ אֶת־קֹל֖וֹ לְיַסְּרֶ֑ךָּ וְעַל־הָאָ֗רֶץ הֶרְאֲךָ֙ אֶת־אִשּׁ֣וֹ הַגְּדוֹלָ֔ה וּדְבָרָ֥יו שָׁמַ֖עְתָּ מִתּ֥וֹךְ הָאֵֽשׁ׃ [Deuteronomy 4:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.36/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:148` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 4:34 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.146/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 4:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.149/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 4:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.36/)