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title: Deuteronomy 23:5 (JPS 1917) — because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when… · tree and pragmatics
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# Deuteronomy 23:5 · JPS 1917

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because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse thee.

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**Who acts:** Ammonite, ye · **What happens:** not meet, come, hire, curse · **To what, where:** you, way, Egypt, Balaam, Pethor, thee

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This is Deuteronomy 23:5 · 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 (Ammonite, ye), 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:618
# text = because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse thee.
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
16	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obl	_	_
29	Balaam	Balaam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Beor	Beor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Pethor	Pethor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
39	naharaim	naharaim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	curse	curse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
43	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	obj	_	_
44	.	.	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 | **not** **meet** | past | Ammonite | you |  | the way |  | with bread and water | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Theme with bread=Instrument |
| 2 | **come** | past | ye |  |  | Egypt |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out egypt=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hire** | past | Ammonite | Balaam |  | Pethor of Aram naharaim |  | against thee | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent balaam=Theme from pethor=Source |
| 4 | **curse** | to-infinitive | Ammonite *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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עַל־דְּבַ֞ר אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹא־קִדְּמ֤וּ אֶתְכֶם֙ בַּלֶּ֣חֶם וּבַמַּ֔יִם בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ בְּצֵאתְכֶ֣ם מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וַאֲשֶׁר֩ שָׂכַ֨ר עָלֶ֜יךָ אֶת־בִּלְעָ֣ם בֶּן־בְּע֗וֹר מִפְּת֛וֹר אֲרַ֥מ נַהֲרַ֖יִם אֲרַ֥מ נַהֲרַ֖יִם לְקַֽלְלֶֽךָּ׃

[Deuteronomy 23:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.5/)

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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:618` 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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