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title: Deuteronomy 28:59 (JPS 1917) — then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. Who acts: LORD, thy. Deuteronomy 28:59 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 28:59 · JPS 1917

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then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

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**Who acts:** LORD, thy · **What happens:** make, plague · **To what, where:** plagues, seed

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This is Deuteronomy 28:59 · 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 (LORD, thy), 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:796
# text = then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	plagues	plague	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	plagues	plague	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	plagues	plague	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	continuance	continuance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sicknesses	sickness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	continuance	continuance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | future | the LORD | thy plagues |  |  | then | wonderful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plague=Product |
| 2 | **plague** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom plague «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **plague** |  |  | thy seed |  |  |  |  | nom plague «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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וְהִפְלָ֤א יְהוָה֙ אֶת־מַכֹּ֣תְךָ֔ וְאֵ֖ת מַכּ֣וֹת זַרְעֶ֑ךָ מַכּ֤וֹת גְּדֹלוֹת֙ וְנֶ֣אֱמָנ֔וֹת וָחֳלָיִ֥ם רָעִ֖ים וְנֶאֱמָנִֽים׃

[Deuteronomy 28:59: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.59/)

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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:796` of Mova's parse database.

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