--- title: Deuteronomy 33:29 (JPS 1917) — Happy art thou, O Israel, who is like unto thee? a people saved by t… · tree and pragmatics description: Happy art thou, O Israel, who is like unto thee? a people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and that is the sword of thy excellency! Who acts: thou, that, thy. 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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 (thou, that, thy), 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:966 # text = Happy art thou, O Israel, who is like unto thee? a people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and that is the sword of thy excellency! 1 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 O o INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 6 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 obl _ _ 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 people people NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 16 saved save VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl:agent _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 excellency excellency NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: exclamation - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed form=excl, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | thou | | | | | Israel *vocative*; happy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | unto thee; like *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **save** | participle | | a people and the sword *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | the sword | | | | of thy excellency | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | | thy | | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} אַשְׁרֶ֨יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל מִ֣י כָמ֗וֹךָ עַ֚ם נוֹשַׁ֣ע בַּֽיהוָ֔ה מָגֵ֣ן עֶזְרֶ֔ךָ וַאֲשֶׁר־חֶ֖רֶב גַּאֲוָתֶ֑ךָ וְיִכָּֽחֲשׁ֤וּ אֹיְבֶ֙יךָ֙ לָ֔ךְ וְאַתָּ֖ה עַל־בָּמוֹתֵ֥ימוֹ תִדְרֹֽךְ׃ס [Deuteronomy 33:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.29/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Happy art thou, O Israel, who is like unto thee? a people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and that is the sword of thy excellency!** 2. [And thine enemies shall dwindle away before thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.967/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:966` 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. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 33:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.965/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 33:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.967/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 33:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.29/)