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title: Deuteronomy 32:1 (JPS 1917) — Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the w… · tree and pragmatics
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# Deuteronomy 32:1 · JPS 1917

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Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

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**Who acts:** you, I, earth · **What happens:** give, speak, let, hear, word · **To what, where:** ear, earth, words, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 32:1 · 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 (you, I, earth), 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:885
# text = Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	ye	ye	DET	PRP	PronType=Prs	5	det	_	_
5	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | ear |  |  |  | ye heavens *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive | the earth *not said here* | the words of my mouth |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | my mouth |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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הַאֲזִ֥ינוּ הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וַאֲדַבֵּ֑רָה וְתִשְׁמַ֥ע הָאָ֖רֶץ אִמְרֵי־פִֽי׃

[Deuteronomy 32:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.1/)

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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:885` 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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