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title: Deuteronomy 8:4 (JPS 1917) — Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. Who acts: raiment, foot. Deuteronomy 8:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 8:4 · JPS 1917

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Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

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**Who acts:** raiment, foot · **What happens:** wax, swell · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Deuteronomy 8:4 · 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 (raiment, foot), 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:250
# text = Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waxed	wax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	swell	swell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wax** | past | Thy raiment |  |  | thee |  | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon thou=Location |
| 2 | **swell** | past · do-support | thy foot |  |  |  | year |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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שִׂמְלָ֨תְךָ֜ לֹ֤א בָֽלְתָה֙ מֵֽעָלֶ֔יךָ וְרַגְלְךָ֖ לֹ֣א בָצֵ֑קָה זֶ֖ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 8:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.4/)

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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:250` 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.

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