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title: Deuteronomy 7:22 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD thy God will cast out those nations before thee by litt… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little; thou mayest not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. Who acts: LORD, thou, beasts. Deuteronomy 7:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 7:22 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little; thou mayest not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

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**Who acts:** LORD, thou, beasts · **What happens:** cast out, not consume, increase · **To what, where:** nations, thee

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This is Deuteronomy 7:22 · 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, beasts), 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:242
# text = And the LORD thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little; thou mayest not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
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	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
19	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **cast out** | future | the LORD | that nations |  | thee |  | by little | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nation=Theme before thou=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **consume** | may | thou | nations *= nation* |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset |
| 3 | **increase** | infinitive | the beasts of the field |  |  |  |  | upon thee | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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וְנָשַׁל֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ אֶת־הַגּוֹיִ֥ם הָאֵ֛ל מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ מְעַ֣ט מְעָ֑ט לֹ֤א תוּכַל֙ כַּלֹּתָ֣ם מַהֵ֔ר פֶּן־תִּרְבֶּ֥ה עָלֶ֖יךָ חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 7:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.22/)

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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:242` 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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