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title: Deuteronomy 28:56 (JPS 1917) — The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to… · tree and pragmatics
description: The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter; Who acts: tender woman, woman. Deuteronomy 28:56 in JPS
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# Deuteronomy 28:56 · JPS 1917

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The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter;

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**Who acts:** tender woman, woman · **What happens:** not adventure, set, be, bosom · **To what, where:** sole, ground

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This is Deuteronomy 28:56 · 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 (tender woman, woman), 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:793
# text = The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	adventure	adventure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sole	sole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	delicateness	delicateness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
32	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
33	against	against	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	against	against	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	against	against	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **adventure** | would | the tender woman among you |  |  |  |  | for delicateness and tenderness | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | to-infinitive | the tender woman among you *not said here* | the sole of woman's foot |  | the ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sole=Theme upon ground=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | shall | the tender woman among you |  |  |  |  | against the husband of woman's bosom and woman's son and woman's daughter; evil *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bosom** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state 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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הָרַכָּ֨ה בְךָ֜ וְהָעֲנֻגָּ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹא־נִסְּתָ֤ה כַף־רַגְלָהּ֙ הַצֵּ֣ג עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ מֵהִתְעַנֵּ֖ג וּמֵרֹ֑ךְ תֵּרַ֤ע עֵינָהּ֙ בְּאִ֣ישׁ חֵיקָ֔הּ וּבִבְנָ֖הּ וּבְבִתָּֽהּ׃

[Deuteronomy 28:56: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.56/)

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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:793` of Mova's parse database.

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