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title: Deuteronomy 28:45 (JPS 1917) — And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded thee. Who acts: curses, thou, stranger. Deuteronomy 28:45 in JP
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# Deuteronomy 28:45 · JPS 1917

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And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded thee.

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**Who acts:** curses, thou, stranger · **What happens:** come, pursue, overtake, destroy, not hearken, keep · **To what, where:** thee, thou, commandments, statutes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 28:45 · 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 (curses, thou, stranger), 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:782
# text = And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded thee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	curses	curse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
26	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
29	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
40	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
46	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	47	obj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | all curses |  |  | thee |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon thou=Location |
| 2 | **pursue** | shall | all curses *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **overtake** | infinitive | all curses *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **destroy** | infinitive · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **hearken** | past · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  | unto the voice of the LORD | tree rules |
| 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | stranger's commandments and stranger's statutes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme |
| 7 | **command** | past | stranger | stranger's statutes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **command** |  | stranger |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וּבָ֨אוּ עָלֶ֜יךָ כָּל־הַקְּלָל֣וֹת הָאֵ֗לֶּה וּרְדָפ֙וּךָ֙ וְהִשִּׂיג֔וּךָ עַ֖ד הִשָּֽׁמְדָ֑ךְ כִּי־לֹ֣א שָׁמַ֗עְתָּ בְּקוֹל֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לִשְׁמֹ֛ר מִצְוֺתָ֥יו וְחֻקֹּתָ֖יו אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּֽךְ׃

[Deuteronomy 28:45: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.45/)

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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:782` of Mova's parse database.

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