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title: Deuteronomy 7:1 (JPS 1917) — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou go… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 
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# Deuteronomy 7:1 · JPS 1917

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When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

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**Who acts:** LORD, thou · **What happens:** bring, go, possess, cast out · **To what, where:** thee, land, many nations

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This is Deuteronomy 7:1 · 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, thou), 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:221
# text = When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Hittite	Hittite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Girgashite	Girgashite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Amorite	Amorite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Canaanite	Canaanite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Perizzite	Perizzite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Hivite	Hivite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Jebusite	Jebusite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	appos	_	_
57	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	56	amod	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	57	conj	_	_
60	than	than	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	57	obl	_	_
62	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | shall | the LORD | thee |  | the land |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme into land=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | land |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **cast out** | shall | the LORD *not said here* | many nations |  | thee |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nation=Theme before thou=Destination |

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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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כִּ֤י יְבִֽיאֲךָ֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֶל־הָאָ֕רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֥ה בָא־שָׁ֖מָּה לְרִשְׁתָּ֑הּ וְנָשַׁ֣ל גּֽוֹיִם־רַבִּ֣ים ׀ מִפָּנֶ֡יךָ הַֽחִתִּי֩ וְהַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֨י וְהָאֱמֹרִ֜י וְהַכְּנַעֲנִ֣י וְהַפְּרִזִּ֗י וְהַֽחִוִּי֙ וְהַיְבוּסִ֔י שִׁבְעָ֣ה גוֹיִ֔ם רַבִּ֥ים וַעֲצוּמִ֖ים מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

[Deuteronomy 7:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.1/)

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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:221` of Mova's parse database.

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