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title: Deuteronomy 32:27 (JPS 1917) — Were it not that I dreaded the enemy's provocation, lest their adver… · tree and pragmatics
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# Deuteronomy 32:27 · JPS 1917

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Were it not that I dreaded the enemy's provocation, lest their adversaries should misdeem, lest they should say: Our hand is exalted, and not the LORD hath wrought all this.'

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**Who acts:** memory, adversaries, LORD, enemy · **What happens:** not dread, misdeem, say, exalt, wrought, provoke · **To what, where:** provocation, hand, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 32:27 · 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 (memory, adversaries, LORD, enemy), 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:912
# text = Were it not that I dreaded the enemy's provocation, lest their adversaries should misdeem, lest they should say: Our hand is exalted, and not the LORD hath wrought all this.'
1	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dreaded	dread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	provocation	provocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	adversaries	adversary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	misdeem	misdeem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
35	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dread** | past | memory | the enemy's provocation |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer provocation=Stimulus |
| 2 | **misdeem** | should | men's adversaries |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | adversaries *= adversary* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **exalt** | present · passive |  | Our hand |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **wrought** | present · perfect | the LORD | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **provoke** |  | the enemy |  |  |  |  |  | nom provocation «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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לוּלֵ֗י כַּ֤עַס אוֹיֵב֙ אָג֔וּר פֶּֽן־יְנַכְּר֖וּ צָרֵ֑ימוֹ פֶּן־יֹֽאמְרוּ֙ יָדֵ֣ינוּ רָ֔מָה וְלֹ֥א יְהוָ֖ה פָּעַ֥ל כָּל־זֹֽאת׃

[Deuteronomy 32:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.27/)

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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:912` 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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