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title: Deuteronomy 28:57 (JPS 1917) — and against her afterbirth that cometh out from between her feet, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: and against her afterbirth that cometh out from between her feet, and against her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates. Who acts: that, woman, enemy. Deuteronom
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# Deuteronomy 28:57 · JPS 1917

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and against her afterbirth that cometh out from between her feet, and against her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates.

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**Who acts:** that, woman, enemy · **What happens:** come out, bear, eat, straiten, want · **To what, where:** feet, children, siege, thee, gates, things

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This is Deuteronomy 28:57 · 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 (that, woman, enemy), 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:794
# text = and against her afterbirth that cometh out from between her feet, and against her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	against	against	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	afterbirth	afterbirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	straitness	straitness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
43	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
44	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	straiten	straiten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	_
47	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	46	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present | that |  |  | woman's feet |  | against woman's afterbirth and woman's children; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | shall | woman | woman's children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 3 | **eat** | shall | woman | children *= child* |  | thine siege and the straitness |  | for want of all things; secretly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **straiten** | shall | enemy | thee |  | thy gates |  | wherewith *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **want** |  |  | all things |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וּֽבְשִׁלְיָתָ֞הּ הַיּוֹצֵ֣ת ׀ מִבֵּ֣ין רַגְלֶ֗יהָ וּבְבָנֶ֙יהָ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֵּלֵ֔ד כִּֽי־תֹאכְלֵ֥ם בְּחֹֽסֶר־כֹּ֖ל בַּסָּ֑תֶר בְּמָצוֹר֙ וּבְמָצ֔וֹק אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָצִ֥יק לְךָ֛ אֹיִבְךָ֖ בִּשְׁעָרֶֽיךָ׃

[Deuteronomy 28:57: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.57/)

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