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title: Deuteronomy 32:4 (JPS 1917) — The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a God o… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is He. Who acts: work, ways, God. Deuteronomy 32:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 32:4 · JPS 1917

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The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is He.

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**Who acts:** work, ways, God · **What happens:** be, work · **To what, where:** justice

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This is Deuteronomy 32:4 · 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 (work, ways, God), 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:888
# text = The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is He.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rock	rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	faithfulness	faithfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
28	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | God's work |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | God's ways | justice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a God of faithfulness and iniquity |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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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הַצּוּר֙ תָּמִ֣ים פָּעֳל֔וֹ כִּ֥י כָל־דְּרָכָ֖יו מִשְׁפָּ֑ט אֵ֤ל אֱמוּנָה֙ וְאֵ֣ין עָ֔וֶל צַדִּ֥יק וְיָשָׁ֖ר הֽוּא׃

[Deuteronomy 32:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.4/)

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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:888` 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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