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title: Deuteronomy 28:66 (JPS 1917) — And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear ni… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life. Who acts: life, thou. Deuteronomy 28:66 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 28:66 · JPS 1917

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And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.

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**Who acts:** life, thou · **What happens:** hang, fear, have, assure · **To what, where:** doubt, assurance

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This is Deuteronomy 28:66 · 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 (life, thou), 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:803
# text = And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	assurance	assurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=warn, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | shall | thy life |  |  | doubt | before thee |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doubt=Location |
| 2 | **fear** | shall | thou |  |  |  | night |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | shall | thou *not said here* | no assurance of thy life |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assurance=Patient |
| 4 | **assure** |  | thy life |  |  |  |  |  | nom assurance «cognition intransitive»: of=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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וְהָי֣וּ חַיֶּ֔יךָ תְּלֻאִ֥ים לְךָ֖ מִנֶּ֑גֶד וּפָֽחַדְתָּ֙ לַ֣יְלָה וְיוֹמָ֔ם וְלֹ֥א תַאֲמִ֖ין בְּחַיֶּֽיךָ׃

[Deuteronomy 28:66: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.66/)

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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:803` 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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