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title: Deuteronomy 32:30 (JPS 1917) — How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight,… · tree and pragmatics
description: How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had given them over and the LORD had delivered them up? Who acts: one, two, Rock, LORD. Deuteronomy 32:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 32:30 · JPS 1917

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How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had given them over and the LORD had delivered them up?

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**Who acts:** one, two, Rock, LORD · **What happens:** chase, put, give over, deliver up · **To what, where:** thousand, ten thousand, adversaries

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This is Deuteronomy 32:30 · 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 (one, two, Rock, LORD), 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:915
# text = How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had given them over and the LORD had delivered them up?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	except	except	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed voice=character, indirect=1, act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | should | one | a thousand |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | participle | two | ten thousand |  |  |  | to flight | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thousand=Goal |
| 3 | **give over** | past · perfect | adversaries's Rock | adversaries *= adversary* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **deliver up** | past · perfect | the LORD | adversaries *= adversary* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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אֵיכָ֞ה יִרְדֹּ֤ף אֶחָד֙ אֶ֔לֶף וּשְׁנַ֖יִם יָנִ֣יסוּ רְבָבָ֑ה אִם־לֹא֙ כִּי־צוּרָ֣ם מְכָרָ֔ם וַֽיהוָ֖ה הִסְגִּירָֽם׃

[Deuteronomy 32:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.30/)

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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:915` 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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