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title: Deuteronomy 7:8 (JPS 1917) — but because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath w… · tree and pragmatics
description: but because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Who acts: LORD. Deuteronomy 7:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency
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# Deuteronomy 7:8 · JPS 1917

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but because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** love, keep, swear, bring out, redeem · **To what, where:** you, oath, house

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This is Deuteronomy 7:8 · 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), 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:228
# text = but because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
22	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	redeemed	redeem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	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 | the LORD | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **keep** | would | LORD | the oath |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
| 3 | **swear** | past | LORD | the oath |  |  |  | unto your fathers | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 4 | **bring out** | present · perfect | the LORD | you |  |  |  | with a mighty hand | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with hand=Instrument |
| 5 | **redeem** | past | the LORD *not said here* | you |  | the house of bondage |  | from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme out house=Source |

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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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כִּי֩ מֵֽאַהֲבַ֨ת יְהוָ֜ה אֶתְכֶ֗ם וּמִשָּׁמְרוּ֤אֶת־הַשְּׁבֻעָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר נִשְׁבַּע֙ לַאֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם הוֹצִ֧יא יְהוָ֛ה אֶתְכֶ֖ם בְּיָ֣ד חֲזָקָ֑ה וַֽיִּפְדְּךָ֙ מִבֵּ֣ית עֲבָדִ֔ים מִיַּ֖ד פַּרְעֹ֥ה מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרָֽיִם׃

[Deuteronomy 7:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.8/)

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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:228` 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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