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title: Deuteronomy 4:37 (JPS 1917) — And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt, Who acts: God. Deuteronomy 4:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 4:37 · JPS 1917

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And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt,

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** love, choose, bring out · **To what, where:** fathers, seed, thee, Egypt

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This is Deuteronomy 4:37 · 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 (God), 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:149
# text = And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | God | thy fathers |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
| 2 | **choose** | past | God *not said here* | fathers's seed |  |  | after fathers *= father* |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 3 | **bring out** | past | God *not said here* | thee |  | Egypt |  | with God's presence; with God's great power; out *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thou=Patient with presence=Instrument |

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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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וְתַ֗חַת כִּ֤י אָהַב֙ אֶת־אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ וַיִּבְחַ֥ר בְּזַרְע֖וֹ אַחֲרָ֑יו וַיּוֹצִֽאֲךָ֧ בְּפָנָ֛יו בְּכֹח֥וֹ הַגָּדֹ֖ל מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

[Deuteronomy 4:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.37/)

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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:149` 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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