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title: Deuteronomy 7:17 (JPS 1917) — If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how… · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?' Who acts: thou, nations, I. Deuteronomy 7:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 7:17 · JPS 1917

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If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'

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**Who acts:** thou, nations, I · **What happens:** say, be, dispossess · **To what, where:** heart, nations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 7:17 · 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 (thou, nations, I), 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:237
# text = If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
10	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	ccomp	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	dispossess	dispossess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou |  |  | thy heart |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in heart=Manner |
| 2 | **is** | present | this nations |  |  |  |  | than I; more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dispossess** | can | I | nations *= nation* |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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כִּ֤י תֹאמַר֙ בִּלְבָ֣בְךָ֔ רַבִּ֛ים הַגּוֹיִ֥ם הָאֵ֖לֶּה מִמֶּ֑נִּי אֵיכָ֥ה אוּכַ֖ל לְהוֹרִישָֽׁם׃

[Deuteronomy 7:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.17/)

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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:237` 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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