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title: Deuteronomy 9:20 (JPS 1917) — Moreover the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. Who acts: LORD, I. Deuteronomy 9:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 9:20 · JPS 1917

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Moreover the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

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**Who acts:** LORD, I · **What happens:** be, destroy, pray · **To what, where:** LORD

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This is Deuteronomy 9:20 · 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 (LORD, 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:287
# text = Moreover the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | angry, moreover *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **destroy** | to-infinitive · perfect | the LORD *not said here* | LORD |  |  |  | with Aaron | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with aaron=Instrument |
| 3 | **pray** | past | I |  |  |  | time | for Aaron | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for aaron=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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וּֽבְאַהֲרֹ֗ן הִתְאַנַּ֧ף יְהוָ֛ה מְאֹ֖ד לְהַשְׁמִיד֑וֹ וָֽאֶתְפַּלֵּ֛ל גַּם־בְּעַ֥ד אַהֲרֹ֖ן בָּעֵ֥ת הַהִֽוא

[Deuteronomy 9:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.9.20/)

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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:287` 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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