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title: Deuteronomy 4:20 (JPS 1917) — But you hath the LORD taken and brought forth out of the iron furnac… · tree and pragmatics
description: But you hath the LORD taken and brought forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. Who acts: LORD. Deuteronomy 4:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 4:20 · JPS 1917

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But you hath the LORD taken and brought forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** take, bring, be · **To what, where:** you, iron furnace, people

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This is Deuteronomy 4:20 · 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), 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:132
# text = But you hath the LORD taken and brought forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | the LORD |  | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 2 | **bring** | participle | the LORD *not said here* |  |  | the iron furnace |  | out Egypt; forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent out furnace=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | a people |  |  |  | unto LORD; of inheritance | tree rules |

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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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וְאֶתְכֶם֙ לָקַ֣ח יְהוָ֔ה וַיּוֹצִ֥א אֶתְכֶ֛ם מִכּ֥וּר הַבַּרְזֶ֖ל מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם לִהְי֥וֹת ל֛וֹ לְעַ֥ם נַחֲלָ֖ה כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 4:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.20/)

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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:132` 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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