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title: Deuteronomy 32:25 (JPS 1917) — Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror; slaying… · tree and pragmatics
description: Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror; slaying both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs. Who acts: sword. Deuteronomy 32:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 32:25 · JPS 1917

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Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror; slaying both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.

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**Who acts:** sword · **What happens:** bereave, slay · **To what, where:** young man

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This is Deuteronomy 32:25 · 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 (sword), 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:910
# text = Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror; slaying both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.
1	Without	without	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bereave	bereave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
11	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	slaying	slay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc:preconj	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	suckling	suckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bereave** | shall | the sword |  |  |  |  | without *property* | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slay** | gerund | the sword *not said here* | young man and virgin |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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מִחוּץ֙ תְּשַׁכֶּל־חֶ֔רֶב וּמֵחֲדָרִ֖ים אֵימָ֑ה גַּם־בָּחוּר֙ גַּם־בְּתוּלָ֔ה יוֹנֵ֖ק עִם־אִ֥ישׁ שֵׂיבָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 32:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.25/)

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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:910` 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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