Deuteronomy 28:23 · JPS 1917
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
Who acts: heaven, earth · What happens: be · To what, where: head, brass, thee, iron
This is Deuteronomy 28:23 · 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 (heaven, earth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brass | cc |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 heaven | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brass | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 head | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 head | cop |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heaven | acl:relcl |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 brass | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 brass | cop |
| 11 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 iron | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 iron | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 iron | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 thee | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 thee | cop |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 thee | case |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 earth | acl:relcl |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 iron | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 iron | cop |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brass | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brass | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | thy heaven | thy head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | shall | thy heaven | brass and iron | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the earth | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | shall | the earth | iron | tree rules |
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
וְהָי֥וּ שָׁמֶ֛יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־רֹאשְׁךָ֖ נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וְהָאָ֥רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־תַּחְתֶּ֖יךָ בַּרְזֶֽל׃
Deuteronomy 28:23: 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:760 of Mova's parse database.
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