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title: Deuteronomy 29:23 (JPS 1917) — even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus un… · tree and pragmatics
description: even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?' Who acts: nations, LORD, great anger. Deuteronomy 29:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 29:23 · JPS 1917

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even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?'

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**Who acts:** nations, LORD, great anger · **What happens:** say, do, mean, heat · **To what, where:** heat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 29:23 · 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 (nations, LORD, great anger), 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:829
# text = even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?'
1	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
13	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
19	meaneth	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | all nations |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto this land; thus, wherefore *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  | the heat of this great anger |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Topic |
| 4 | **heat** |  | this great anger |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon 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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וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם עַל־מֶ֨ה עָשָׂ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה כָּ֖כָה לָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את מֶ֥ה חֳרִ֛י הָאַ֥ף הַגָּד֖וֹל הַזֶּֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 29:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.29.23/)

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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:829` 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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