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title: Deuteronomy 33:25 (JPS 1917) — Iron and brass shall be thy bars; and as thy days, so shall thy stre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Iron and brass shall be thy bars; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. Who acts: Iron, strength. Deuteronomy 33:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 33:25 · JPS 1917

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Iron and brass shall be thy bars; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

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**Who acts:** Iron, strength · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bars

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This is Deuteronomy 33:25 · 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 (Iron, strength), 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:962
# text = Iron and brass shall be thy bars; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | shall | Iron and brass | thy bars |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | shall | thy strength |  |  |  | day | so *property* | 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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בַּרְזֶ֥ל וּנְחֹ֖שֶׁת מִנְעָלֶ֑יךָ וּכְיָמֶ֖יךָ דָּבְאֶֽךָ׃

[Deuteronomy 33:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.25/)

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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:962` 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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