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title: Deuteronomy 32:16 (JPS 1917) — They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did… · tree and pragmatics
description: They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him. Who acts: elders. Deuteronomy 32:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 32:16 · JPS 1917

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They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him.

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**Who acts:** elders · **What happens:** rouse, provoke · **To what, where:** God

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This is Deuteronomy 32:16 · 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 (elders), 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:901
# text = They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	roused	rouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	abominations	abomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	provoke	provoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **rouse** | past | elders *= elder* | God |  |  |  | to jealousy; with strange gods | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **provoke** | past · do-support | elders *= elder* | God |  |  |  | with abominations | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ בְּזָרִ֑ים בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃

[Deuteronomy 32:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.16/)

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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:901` 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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