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title: Deuteronomy 28:20 (JPS 1917) — The LORD will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in a… · tree and pragmatics
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# Deuteronomy 28:20 · JPS 1917

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The LORD will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken Me.

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**Who acts:** LORD, thou · **What happens:** send, put, do, destroy, perish, forsake · **To what, where:** cursing, all, hand, that, thou, Me

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This is Deuteronomy 28:20 · 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, thou), 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:757
# text = The LORD will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken Me.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	_
7	cursing	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	discomfiture	discomfiture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rebuke	rebuke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	puttest	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
33	perish	perish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	because	because	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
45	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	47	nsubj	_	_
46	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
48	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **send** | future | the LORD | cursing and discomfiture and rebuke |  | all |  | upon thee; because the evil of thy doings | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent curse=Theme in all=Destination |
| 2 | **put** | present | thou | thy hand |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 4 | **destroy** | infinitive · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **perish** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **forsake** | present · perfect | thou | Me |  |  |  | whereby *property* | 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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יְשַׁלַּ֣ח יְהוָ֣ה ׀ בְּ֠ךָ אֶת־הַמְּאֵרָ֤ה אֶת־הַמְּהוּמָה֙ וְאֶת־הַמִּגְעֶ֔רֶת בְּכָל־מִשְׁלַ֥ח יָדְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּעֲשֶׂ֑ה עַ֣ד הִשָּֽׁמֶדְךָ֤ וְעַד־אֲבָדְךָ֙ מַהֵ֔ר מִפְּנֵ֛י רֹ֥עַ מַֽעֲלָלֶ֖יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עֲזַבְתָּֽנִי׃

[Deuteronomy 28:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.20/)

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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:757` of Mova's parse database.

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