Deuteronomy 4:31 · JPS 1917
for the LORD thy God is a merciful God; He will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which He swore unto them.
Who acts: LORD, fathers · What happens: be, not fail, destroy, forget, swear, covenant · To what, where: merciful God, thee, covenant
This is Deuteronomy 4:31 · 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 (LORD, fathers), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 God | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 God | nsubj |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 God | nmod:poss |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 LORD | appos |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 God | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 God | det |
| 8 | merciful | merciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 God | amod |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fail | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 fail | punct |
| 11 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fail | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fail | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fail | advmod |
| 14 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 fail | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 destroy | punct |
| 17 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 destroy | cc |
| 18 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fail | conj |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 destroy | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forget | punct |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 forget | cc |
| 22 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fail | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 covenant | det |
| 24 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forget | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 fathers | case |
| 26 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 covenant | nmod |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 swore | obj |
| 29 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 swore | nsubj |
| 30 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 covenant | acl:relcl |
| 31 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 swore | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=pos, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the LORD | a merciful God | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fail | future | LORD | thee | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | destroy | infinitive | LORD not said here | thee | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | ||||
| 4 | forget | infinitive | LORD not said here | the covenant of thy fathers | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swear | past | LORD | the covenant of thy fathers | unto fathers = father | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | covenant | thy fathers | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: of=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
כִּ֣י אֵ֤ל רַחוּם֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לֹ֥א יַרְפְּךָ֖ וְלֹ֣א יַשְׁחִיתֶ֑ךָ וְלֹ֤א יִשְׁכַּח֙ אֶת־בְּרִ֣ית אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נִשְׁבַּ֖ע לָהֶֽם׃
Deuteronomy 4:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DEU:143 of Mova's parse database.
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