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title: Deuteronomy 28:21 (JPS 1917) — The LORD will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have co… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it. Who acts: LORD, pestilence, thou. Deuteronomy 28:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 28:21 · JPS 1917

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The LORD will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it.

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**Who acts:** LORD, pestilence, thou · **What happens:** make, cleave, consume, go in, possess · **To what, where:** pestilence, thee, land

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This is Deuteronomy 28:21 · 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, pestilence, 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:758
# text = The LORD will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it.
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	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	cleave	cleave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | future | the LORD | the pestilence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cleave** | infinitive | the pestilence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto thee | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **consume** | present · perfect | LORD | thee |  | the land |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Asset |
| 4 | **go in** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **possess** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | pestilence |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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יַדְבֵּ֧ק יְהוָ֛ה בְּךָ֖ אֶת־הַדָּ֑בֶר עַ֚ד כַּלֹּת֣וֹ אֹֽתְךָ֔ מֵעַל֙ הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֥ה בָא־שָׁ֖מָּה לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃

[Deuteronomy 28:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.21/)

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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:758` 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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