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title: Deuteronomy 8:9 (JPS 1917) — a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt n… · tree and pragmatics
description: a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. Who acts: thou, stones. Deuteronomy 8:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 8:9 · JPS 1917

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a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

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**Who acts:** thou, stones · **What happens:** eat, not lack, be, dig · **To what, where:** bread, land, iron, brass, hills

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This is Deuteronomy 8:9 · 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 (thou, stones), 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:255
# text = a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
3	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	scarceness	scarceness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
12	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	lack	lack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
33	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
35	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=promise, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | shall | thou | bread |  |  |  | without scarceness; wherein *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **lack** | shall | thou | a land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | iron's stones | iron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dig** | may | thou | brass |  | hills |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent brass=Theme out hill=Location |

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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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אֶ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹ֤א בְמִסְכֵּנֻת֙ תֹּֽאכַל־בָּ֣הּ לֶ֔חֶם לֹֽא־תֶחְסַ֥ר כֹּ֖ל בָּ֑הּ אֶ֚רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲבָנֶ֣יהָ בַרְזֶ֔ל וּמֵהֲרָרֶ֖יהָ תַּחְצֹ֥ב נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

[Deuteronomy 8:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.9/)

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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:255` 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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