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title: Deuteronomy 27:19 (JPS 1917) — Cursed be he that perverteth the justice due to the stranger, father… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cursed be he that perverteth the justice due to the stranger, fatherless, and widow. Who acts: Amen. Deuteronomy 27:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 27:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Cursed be he that perverteth the justice due to the stranger, fatherless, and widow.

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**Who acts:** Amen · **What happens:** be, pervert · **To what, where:** justice

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This is Deuteronomy 27:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Amen), 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:722
# text = Cursed be he that perverteth the justice due to the stranger, fatherless, and widow.
1	Cursed	curse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	cop	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	perverteth	pervert	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fatherless	fatherless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=other, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | Amen |  |  |  |  | curse *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pervert** | present |  | the justice |  |  |  | due the stranger and widow | tree rules |

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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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אָר֗וּר מַטֶּ֛ה מִשְׁפַּ֥ט גֵּר־יָת֖וֹם וְאַלְמָנָ֑ה וְאָמַ֥ר כָּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃ס

[Deuteronomy 27:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.19/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Cursed be he that perverteth the justice due to the stranger, fatherless, and widow.**
2. [And all the people shall say: Amen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.723/)

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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:722` 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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