--- title: Deuteronomy 7:6 (JPS 1917) — For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God h… · tree and pragmatics description: For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be His own treasure, out of all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. Who acts: thou, LORD, peoples. 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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 (thou, LORD, peoples), 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:226 # text = For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be His own treasure, out of all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nsubj _ _ 3 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 19 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 22 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 out out ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 acl:relcl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | thou | a holy people | | | | unto the LORD | tree rules | | 2 | **choose** | present · perfect | the LORD | thee | | | | out all peoples | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | LORD's own treasure | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | all peoples | | | | | upon the face; of the earth | tree rules | 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} כִּ֣י עַ֤ם קָדוֹשׁ֙ אַתָּ֔ה לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּךָ֞ בָּחַ֣ר ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ לִהְי֥וֹת לוֹ֙ לְעַ֣ם סְגֻלָּ֔ה מִכֹּל֙ הָֽעַמִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָֽה׃ס [Deuteronomy 7:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:226` 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 7:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.225/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 7:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.227/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 7:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.6/)