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title: Deuteronomy 33:22 (JPS 1917) — And of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, that leapeth forth from B… · tree and pragmatics
description: And of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, that leapeth forth from Bashan. Who acts: Gad, Dan, whelp. Deuteronomy 33:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 33:22 · JPS 1917

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And of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, that leapeth forth from Bashan.

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**Who acts:** Gad, Dan, whelp · **What happens:** say, be, leap · **To what, where:** whelp, Bashan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 33:22 · 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, Dan, whelp), 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:959
# text = And of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, that leapeth forth from Bashan.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Dan	Dan	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	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	Dan	Dan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	whelp	whelp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	leapeth	leap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Bashan	Bashan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | Gad |  |  |  |  | of Dan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Dan | a lion's whelp |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leap** | present | a lion's whelp |  |  | Bashan |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bashan=Trajectory |

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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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וּלְדָ֣ן אָמַ֔ר דָּ֖ן גּ֣וּר אַרְיֵ֑ה יְזַנֵּ֖ק מִן־הַבָּשָֽׁן׃

[Deuteronomy 33:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.22/)

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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:959` 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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