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title: Deuteronomy 33:20 (JPS 1917) — And of Gad he said: Blessed be He that enlargeth Gad; he dwelleth as… · tree and pragmatics
description: And of Gad he said: Blessed be He that enlargeth Gad; he dwelleth as a lioness, and teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head. Who acts: Gad. Deuteronomy 33:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 33:20 · JPS 1917

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And of Gad he said: Blessed be He that enlargeth Gad; he dwelleth as a lioness, and teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head.

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**Who acts:** Gad · **What happens:** say, bless, enlarge, dwell, tear, crown · **To what, where:** Gad, arm, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 33:20 · 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 (Gad), 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:957
# text = And of Gad he said: Blessed be He that enlargeth Gad; he dwelleth as a lioness, and teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Gad	Gad	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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	enlargeth	enlarge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	Gad	Gad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dwelleth	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lioness	lioness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	teareth	tear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- 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 | Gad |  |  |  |  | of Gad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bless** | infinitive · passive |  | Gad |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **enlarge** | present |  | Gad |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gad=Patient |
| 4 | **dwell** | present | Gad |  |  |  |  | as a lioness | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tear** | present | Gad *not said here* | the arm |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location arm=Theme |
| 6 | **crown** |  |  | the head |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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וּלְגָ֣ד אָמַ֔ר בָּר֖וּךְ מַרְחִ֣יב גָּ֑ד כְּלָבִ֣יא שָׁכֵ֔ן וְטָרַ֥ף זְר֖וֹעַ אַף־קָדְקֹֽד׃

[Deuteronomy 33:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.20/)

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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:957` 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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