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title: Deuteronomy 8:15 (JPS 1917) — who led thee through the great and dreadful wilderness, wherein were… · tree and pragmatics
description: who led thee through the great and dreadful wilderness, wherein were serpents, fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; Who acts: serpents, water. Deuteronomy 8:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Deuteronomy 8:15 · JPS 1917

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who led thee through the great and dreadful wilderness, wherein were serpents, fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

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**Who acts:** serpents, water · **What happens:** lead, be, bring · **To what, where:** thee, great wilderness, water, rock

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This is Deuteronomy 8:15 · 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 (serpents, water), 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:261
# text = who led thee through the great and dreadful wilderness, wherein were serpents, fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
12	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	iobj	_	_
32	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past |  | thee |  | the great wilderness and thirsty ground |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme through wilderness=Destination |
| 2 | **be** | past | serpents and fiery serpents and scorpions |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | no water |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past |  | water | thee | the rock of flint |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination water=Theme |

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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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הַמּוֹלִ֨יכֲךָ֜ בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר ׀ הַגָּדֹ֣ל וְהַנּוֹרָ֗א נָחָ֤שׁ ׀ שָׂרָף֙ וְעַקְרָ֔ב וְצִמָּא֖וֹן אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֵֽין־מָ֑יִם הַמּוֹצִ֤יא לְךָ֙ מַ֔יִם מִצּ֖וּר הַֽחַלָּמִֽישׁ׃

[Deuteronomy 8:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.15/)

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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:261` 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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