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title: Deuteronomy 28:38 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather litt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. Who acts: Thou, locust. Deuteronomy 28:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 28:38 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

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**Who acts:** Thou, locust · **What happens:** carry out, gather, consume · **To what, where:** much seed, field, little

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This is Deuteronomy 28:38 · 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, locust), 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:775
# text = Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	little	little	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	locust	locust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** | shall | Thou | much seed |  | the field |  | out *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Eventuality |
| 2 | **gather** | shall | Thou *not said here* | little |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme |
| 3 | **consume** | shall | the locust | little |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |

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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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זֶ֥רַע רַ֖ב תּוֹצִ֣יא הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה וּמְעַ֣ט תֶּאֱסֹ֔ף כִּ֥י יַחְסְלֶ֖נּוּ הָאַרְבֶּֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 28:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.38/)

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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:775` 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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