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title: Deuteronomy 29:22 (JPS 1917) — and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burnin… · tree and pragmatics
description: and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath; Who acts: whole land, burning, grass, LORD. De
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# Deuteronomy 29:22 · JPS 1917

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and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath;

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**Who acts:** whole land, burning, grass, LORD · **What happens:** be, not sow, bear, grow, overthrow, anger · **To what, where:** brimstone, land, Sodom, anger

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This is Deuteronomy 29:22 · 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 (whole land, burning, grass, LORD), 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:828
# text = and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath;
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	brimstone	brimstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
24	beareth	bear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	groweth	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Sodom	Sodom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Gomorrah	Gomorrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	Admah	Admah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	Zeboiim	Zeboiim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
56	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | the whole land | brimstone and salt and a burning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **sow** | present · passive | a burning *not said here* | land |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | present | a burning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **grow** | present | any grass |  |  |  |  | like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim; therein *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **overthrow** | past | the LORD | Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim |  | LORD's anger and LORD's wrath |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **overthrow** |  |  | Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim |  |  |  |  | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **anger** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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גָּפְרִ֣ית וָמֶלַח֮ שְׂרֵפָ֣ה כָל־אַרְצָהּ֒ לֹ֤א תִזָּרַע֙ וְלֹ֣א תַצְמִ֔חַ וְלֹֽא־יַעֲלֶ֥ה בָ֖הּ כָּל־עֵ֑שֶׂב כְּֽמַהְפֵּכַ֞ת סְדֹ֤ם וַעֲמֹרָה֙ אַדְמָ֣ה וּצְבוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁר֙ הָפַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֔ה בְּאַפּ֖וֹ וּבַחֲמָתֽוֹ׃

[Deuteronomy 29:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.29.22/)

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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:828` of Mova's parse database.

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