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title: Deuteronomy 33:8 (JPS 1917) — And of Levi he said: Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be with Thy holy one,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And of Levi he said: Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be with Thy holy one, whom Thou didst prove at Massah, with whom Thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; Who acts: man, Thummim, Thou. Deuteronomy 33:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 33:8 · JPS 1917

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And of Levi he said: Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be with Thy holy one, whom Thou didst prove at Massah, with whom Thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

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**Who acts:** man, Thummim, Thou · **What happens:** say, be, prove, strive · **To what, where:** holy one, Massah, waters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 33:8 · 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 (man, Thummim, Thou), 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:945
# text = And of Levi he said: Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be with Thy holy one, whom Thou didst prove at Massah, with whom Thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Thummim	Thummim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Urim	Urim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
19	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
20	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Massah	Massah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
27	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
28	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	strive	strive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Meribah	Meribah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  | of Levi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | Thy Thummim and Thy Urim |  |  |  |  | with Thy holy one | tree rules |
| 3 | **prove** | past · do-support | Thou | Thy holy one |  | Massah |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 4 | **strive** | past · do-support | Thou |  |  | the waters of Meribah |  |  | 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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וּלְלֵוִ֣י אָמַ֔ר תֻּמֶּ֥יךָ וְאוּרֶ֖יךָ לְאִ֣ישׁ חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ אֲשֶׁ֤ר נִסִּיתוֹ֙ בְּמַסָּ֔ה תְּרִיבֵ֖הוּ עַל־מֵ֥י מְרִיבָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 33:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.8/)

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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:945` 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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