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title: Deuteronomy 32:18 (JPS 1917) — Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, and didst forget Go… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, and didst forget God that bore thee. Who acts: Rock, thou, God. Deuteronomy 32:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 32:18 · JPS 1917

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Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, and didst forget God that bore thee.

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**Who acts:** Rock, thou, God · **What happens:** beget, be, forget, bear · **To what, where:** thee, God

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This is Deuteronomy 32:18 · 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 (Rock, 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:903
# text = Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, and didst forget God that bore thee.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	begot	beget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obj	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	wast	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	unmindful	unmindful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **beget** | past | the Rock | thee |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | thou |  |  |  |  | of the Rock; unmindful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | past · do-support | thou *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bear** | past | God | thee |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |

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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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צ֥וּר יְלָדְךָ֖ תֶּ֑שִׁי וַתִּשְׁכַּ֖ח אֵ֥ל מְחֹלְלֶֽךָ׃

[Deuteronomy 32:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.18/)

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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:903` 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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