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title: Deuteronomy 33:29 (JPS 1917) — And thine enemies shall dwindle away before thee; and thou shalt tre… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thine enemies shall dwindle away before thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places. Who acts: enemies, thou. Deuteronomy 33:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 33:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And thine enemies shall dwindle away before thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

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**Who acts:** enemies, thou · **What happens:** dwindle away, tread · **To what, where:** high places

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This is Deuteronomy 33:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (enemies, thou), 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:967
# text = And thine enemies shall dwindle away before thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	dwindle	dwindle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwindle away** | shall | thine enemies |  |  |  | before thee | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **tread** | shall | thou |  |  | peoples's high places |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon place=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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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/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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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!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.966/)
2. **And thine enemies shall dwindle away before thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.**

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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:967` 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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