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title: Deuteronomy 32:42 (JPS 1917) — I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.' Who acts: I, sword. Deuteronomy 32:42 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 32:42 · JPS 1917

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I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'

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**Who acts:** I, sword · **What happens:** make, devour · **To what, where:** arrows, flesh, haired heads

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This is Deuteronomy 32:42 · 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 (I, 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:927
# text = I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **make** | future | I | Mine arrows |  |  |  | drunk *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Product |
| 2 | **devour** | shall | My sword | flesh |  | the haired heads of the enemy |  | with the blood of the slain and the captives | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=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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אַשְׁכִּ֤יר חִצַּי֙ מִדָּ֔ם וְחַרְבִּ֖י תֹּאכַ֣ל בָּשָׂ֑ר מִדַּ֤ם חָלָל֙ וְשִׁבְיָ֔ה מֵרֹ֖אשׁ פַּרְע֥וֹת אוֹיֵֽב׃

[Deuteronomy 32:42: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.42/)

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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:927` 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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