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title: Deuteronomy 28:29 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee. Who acts: thou, blind, none. Deuteronomy 28:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Deuteronomy 28:29 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.

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**Who acts:** thou, blind, none · **What happens:** grope, not make, oppress, rob, be, save · **To what, where:** noonday, darkness, ways, thou, thee

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This is Deuteronomy 28:29 · 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 (thou, blind, none), 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:766
# text = And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grope	grope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	noonday	noonday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blind	blind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gropeth	grope	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
17	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	oppressed	oppress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
32	alway	alway	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
36	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
38	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	37	nsubj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	_
41	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grope** | shall | thou |  |  | noonday |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at noonday=Location |
| 2 | **grope** | present | the blind |  |  | darkness |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in darkness=Location |
| 3 | **not** **make** | shall | thou | thy ways |  |  |  | prosperous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 4 | **oppress** | shall · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rob** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | alway *property* | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** | shall | none |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **save** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «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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וְהָיִ֜יתָ מְמַשֵּׁ֣שׁ בַּֽצָּהֳרַ֗יִם כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר יְמַשֵּׁ֤שׁ הָעִוֵּר֙ בָּאֲפֵלָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א תַצְלִ֖יחַ אֶת־דְּרָכֶ֑יךָ וְהָיִ֜יתָ אַ֣ךְ עָשׁ֧וּק וְגָז֛וּל כָּל־הַיָּמִ֖ים וְאֵ֥ין מוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

[Deuteronomy 28:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.29/)

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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:766` of Mova's parse database.

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