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title: Deuteronomy 32:51 (JPS 1917) — Because ye trespassed against Me in the midst of the children of Isr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Because ye trespassed against Me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the children of Israel. Who acts: ye. Deuteronomy 32:51 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Deuteronomy 32:51 · JPS 1917

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Because ye trespassed against Me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** trespass, not sanctify · **To what, where:** midst, Me

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This is Deuteronomy 32:51 · 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 (ye), 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:936
# text = Because ye trespassed against Me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trespassed	trespass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Meribath	Meribath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	kadesh	Kadesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Zin	Zin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sanctified	sanctify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
31	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **trespass** | past | ye |  |  | the midst of the children of Israel |  | against Me; at the waters of Meribath kadesh; in the wilderness of Zin | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **sanctify** | past | ye | Me |  | the midst of the children of Israel |  |  | tree rules |

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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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עַל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר מְעַלְתֶּ֜ם בִּ֗י בְּתוֹךְ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּמֵֽי־מְרִיבַ֥ת קָדֵ֖שׁ מִדְבַּר־צִ֑ן עַ֣ל אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־קִדַּשְׁתֶּם֙ אוֹתִ֔י בְּת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Deuteronomy 32:51: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.51/)

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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:936` 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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