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title: Deuteronomy 32:17 (JPS 1917) — They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new g… · tree and pragmatics
description: They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not. Who acts: elders, new gods, fathers. Deuteronomy 32:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 32:17 · JPS 1917

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They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not.

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**Who acts:** elders, new gods, fathers · **What happens:** sacrifice, not know, come up, not dread · **To what, where:** gods, new gods

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This is Deuteronomy 32:17 · 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, new gods, fathers), 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:902
# text = They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	dreaded	dread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **sacrifice** | past | elders *= elder* |  |  |  |  | unto demons | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past | elders *= elder* | gods |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come up** | past | new gods |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **dread** | past | your fathers | new gods |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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יִזְבְּח֗וּ לַשֵּׁדִים֙ לֹ֣א אֱלֹ֔הַ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֹ֣א יְדָע֑וּם חֲדָשִׁים֙ מִקָּרֹ֣ב בָּ֔אוּ לֹ֥א שְׂעָר֖וּם אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

[Deuteronomy 32:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.17/)

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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:902` 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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