Deuteronomy 28:29 · JPS 1917
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.
Who acts: thou, blind, none · What happens: grope, not make, oppress, rob, be, save · To what, where: noonday, darkness, ways, thou, thee
This is Deuteronomy 28:29 · 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 (thou, blind, none), 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 | _ | 4 grope | cc |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 grope | nsubj |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 grope | aux |
| 4 | grope | grope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 noonday | case |
| 6 | noonday | noonday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grope | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gropeth | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 gropeth | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blind | det |
| 10 | blind | blind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gropeth | nsubj |
| 11 | gropeth | grope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grope | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 darkness | case |
| 13 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gropeth | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 make | cc |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 make | nsubj |
| 17 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 make | advmod |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 grope | conj |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 ways | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 oppressed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 oppressed | cc |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 oppressed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 29 oppressed | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 oppressed | aux:pass |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 oppressed | advmod |
| 29 | oppressed | oppress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grope | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 robbed | cc |
| 31 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 oppressed | conj |
| 32 | alway | alway | ADV | _ | 31 robbed | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 be | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 be | cc |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 37 be | expl |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 be | aux |
| 37 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 grope | conj |
| 38 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 37 be | nsubj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 save | mark |
| 40 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 none | acl |
| 41 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 save | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grope | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grope | shall | thou | noonday | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at noonday=Location | ||||
| 2 | grope | present | the blind | darkness | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in darkness=Location | ||||
| 3 | not make | shall | thou | thy ways | prosperous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 4 | oppress | shall · passive | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | rob | participle | alway property | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | be | shall | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | save | to-infinitive | none not said here | thee | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
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
וְהָיִ֜יתָ מְמַשֵּׁ֣שׁ בַּֽצָּהֳרַ֗יִם כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר יְמַשֵּׁ֤שׁ הָעִוֵּר֙ בָּאֲפֵלָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א תַצְלִ֖יחַ אֶת־דְּרָכֶ֑יךָ וְהָיִ֜יתָ אַ֣ךְ עָשׁ֧וּק וְגָז֛וּל כָּל־הַיָּמִ֖ים וְאֵ֥ין מוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃
Deuteronomy 28:29: 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:766 of Mova's parse database.
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