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title: Deuteronomy 33:24 (JPS 1917) — And of Asher he said: Blessed be Asher above sons; let him be the fa… · tree and pragmatics
description: And of Asher he said: Blessed be Asher above sons; let him be the favoured of his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. Who acts: Gad. Deuteronomy 33:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 33:24 · JPS 1917

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And of Asher he said: Blessed be Asher above sons; let him be the favoured of his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

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**Who acts:** Gad · **What happens:** say, bless, let, be, dip · **To what, where:** Asher, Gad, foot, oil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 33:24 · 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:961
# text = And of Asher he said: Blessed be Asher above sons; let him be the favoured of his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Asher	Asher	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	Asher	Asher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	above	above	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	favoured	favoured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	dip	dip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	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 Asher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bless** | infinitive · passive |  | Asher above sons |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | Gad |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | Gad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Gad's brethren; favoured *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | Gad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **dip** | infinitive | Gad *not said here* | Gad's foot |  | oil |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in oil=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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וּלְאָשֵׁ֣ר אָמַ֔ר בָּר֥וּךְ מִבָּנִ֖ים אָשֵׁ֑ר יְהִ֤י רְצוּי֙ אֶחָ֔יו וְטֹבֵ֥ל בַּשֶּׁ֖מֶן רַגְלֽוֹ׃

[Deuteronomy 33:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.24/)

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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:961` 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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