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title: Deuteronomy 32:5 (JPS 1917) — No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse. · tree and pragmatics
description: No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse. Who acts: children. Deuteronomy 32:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 32:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** blemish

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This is Deuteronomy 32:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (children), 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:890
# text = No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	_
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	blemish	blemish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	perverse	perverse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 a** | present | God's children | the blemish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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שִׁחֵ֥ת ל֛וֹ לֹ֖א בָּנָ֣יו מוּמָ֑ם דּ֥וֹר עִקֵּ֖שׁ וּפְתַלְתֹּֽל׃

[Deuteronomy 32:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Is corruption His?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.889/)
2. **No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.**

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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:890` 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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