--- title: Deuteronomy 32:15 (JPS 1917) — But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked — thou didst wax fat, thou didst… · tree and pragmatics description: But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked — thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross — and he forsook God who made him, and contemned the Rock of his salvation. Who acts: Jeshurun, thou, God. 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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 (Jeshurun, thou, 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:900 # text = But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked — thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross — and he forsook God who made him, and contemned the Rock of his salvation. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Jeshurun Jeshurun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 waxed wax VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 kicked kick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 — — PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 10 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 wax wax VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 12 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 15 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 17 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 20 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 22 gross gross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 — — PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 forsook forsake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 contemned contemn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Rock Rock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 salvation salvation NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wax** | past | Jeshurun | | | | | fat *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **kick** | past | Jeshurun *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **wax** | past · do-support | thou | | | | | fat *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | past · do-support | thou | | | | | thick *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **become** | past · do-support | thou | | | | | gross *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **forsake** | past | Jeshurun | God | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | past | God | God | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | | 8 | **contemn** | past | Jeshurun *not said here* | the Rock of God's salvation | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **salve** | | God | | | | | | nom salvation «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ן יְשֻׁרוּן֙ וַיִּבְעָ֔ט שָׁמַ֖נְתָּ עָבִ֣יתָ כָּשִׂ֑יתָ וַיִּטֹּשׁ֙ אֱל֣וֹהַ עָשָׂ֔הוּ וַיְנַבֵּ֖ל צ֥וּר יְשֻׁעָתֽוֹ׃ [Deuteronomy 32:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:900` 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. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 32:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.899/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 32:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.901/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 32:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.15/)