Deuteronomy 32:17 · JPS 1917

They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not.

Who acts: elders, new gods, fathers · What happens: sacrifice, not know, come up, not dread · To what, where: gods, new gods

This is Deuteronomy 32:17 · 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 (elders, new gods, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sacrificed	nsubj
2	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unto	unto	ADP	_	4 demons	case
4	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sacrificed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gods	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 gods	det
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 no	punct
8	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 demons	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gods	punct
10	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 demons	appos
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 knew	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gods	acl:relcl
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 knew	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gods	punct
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gods	amod
17	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 demons	appos
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gods	acl:relcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	22 late	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 late	case
22	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 came	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dreaded	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 dreaded	obj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fathers	nmod:poss
26	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dreaded	nsubj
27	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gods	acl:relcl
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 dreaded	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sacrificed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sacrifice	past	elders = elder		unto demons	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not know	past	elders = elder	gods		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	come up	past	new gods		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not dread	past	your fathers	new gods		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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

יִזְבְּח֗וּ לַשֵּׁדִים֙ לֹ֣א אֱלֹ֔הַ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֹ֣א יְדָע֑וּם חֲדָשִׁים֙ מִקָּרֹ֣ב בָּ֔אוּ לֹ֥א שְׂעָר֖וּם אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

Deuteronomy 32:17: 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:902 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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