--- title: Deuteronomy 7:4 (JPS 1917) — For he will turn away thy son from following Me, that they may serve… · tree and pragmatics description: For he will turn away thy son from following Me, that they may serve other gods; so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and He will destroy thee quickly. Who acts: LORD, marriages. 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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, marriages), 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:224 # text = For he will turn away thy son from following Me, that they may serve other gods; so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and He will destroy thee quickly. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 away away ADV RP _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 kindled kindle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 28 against against ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 35 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 obj _ _ 36 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn away** | future | LORD | thy son | | | | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | LORD *not said here* | Me | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **serve** | may | marriages *= marriage* | other gods | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute | | 4 | **kindle** | future · passive | | the anger of the LORD | | | | against you | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **destroy** | future | LORD | thee | | | | quickly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | | 6 | **anger** | | the LORD | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | 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} כִּֽי־יָסִ֤יר אֶת־בִּנְךָ֙ מֵֽאַחֲרַ֔י וְעָבְד֖וּ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֑ים וְחָרָ֤ה אַף־יְהוָה֙ בָּכֶ֔ם וְהִשְׁמִידְךָ֖ מַהֵֽר׃ [Deuteronomy 7:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:224` 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. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 7:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.223/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 7:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.225/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 7:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.4/)