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title: Deuteronomy 4:38 (JPS 1917) — to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day; Who acts: land. Deuteronomy 4:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 4:38 · JPS 1917

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to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day;

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**Who acts:** land · **What happens:** drive out, bring in, give, be · **To what, where:** nations, thee, land, day

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This is Deuteronomy 4:38 · 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 (land), 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:150
# text = to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day;
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obl	_	_
8	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	iobj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive out** | to-infinitive |  | nations |  | thee |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nation=Theme from thou=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bring in** | to-infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Asset |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | fathers's land | thee |  |  | for a inheritance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient land=Theme for inheritance=Asset |
| 4 | **is a** | present | land | this day |  |  |  |  | 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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לְהוֹרִ֗ישׁ גּוֹיִ֛ם גְּדֹלִ֧ים וַעֲצֻמִ֛ים מִמְּךָ֖ מִפָּנֶ֑יךָ לַהֲבִֽיאֲךָ֗ לָֽתֶת־לְךָ֧ אֶת־אַרְצָ֛ם נַחֲלָ֖ה כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 4:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.38/)

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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:150` 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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