--- title: Deuteronomy 11:26 (JPS 1917) — Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: · tree and pragmatics description: Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: Who acts: I. Deuteronomy 11:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.344/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Deuteronomy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/) / [chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/11/) / [11:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.11.26/) / JPS 1 # Deuteronomy 11:26 · JPS 1917 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** set · **To what, where:** blessing This is Deuteronomy 11:26 · 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 (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:344 # text = Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 1 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 curse curse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 4 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 | **set** | past | I | a blessing and a curse | | | before you; day | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme before you=Destination | 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} רְאֵ֗ה אָנֹכִ֛י נֹתֵ֥ן לִפְנֵיכֶ֖ם הַיּ֑וֹם בְּרָכָ֖ה וּקְלָלָֽה׃ [Deuteronomy 11:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.11.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:344` 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 11:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.343/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 11:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.345/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 11:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.11.26/)