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title: Deuteronomy 28:50 (JPS 1917) — a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of… · tree and pragmatics
description: a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young. Who acts: nation. Deuteronomy 28:50 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 28:50 · JPS 1917

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a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young.

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**Who acts:** nation · **What happens:** not regard, show · **To what, where:** person, favour, young

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This is Deuteronomy 28:50 · 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 (nation), 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:787
# text = a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young.
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	regard	regard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **regard** | shall | a nation of fierce countenance | the person of the old |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | infinitive | a nation of fierce countenance *not said here* | favour | the young |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Topic to young=Recipient |

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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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גּ֖וֹי עַ֣ז פָּנִ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹא־יִשָּׂ֤א פָנִים֙ לְזָקֵ֔ן וְנַ֖עַר לֹ֥א יָחֹֽן׃

[Deuteronomy 28:50: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.50/)

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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:787` 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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