--- title: Deuteronomy 7:23 (JPS 1917) — But the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and shall di… · tree and pragmatics description: But the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and shall discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. Who acts: LORD. 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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), 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:243 # text = But the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and shall discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. 1 But but 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 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 discomfit discomfit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 discomfiture discomfiture NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 be be AUX VB Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **deliver up** | shall | the LORD | beasts *= beast* | | | before thee | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 2 | **discomfit** | shall | the LORD *not said here* | beasts *= beast* | | | | with a great discomfiture | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 3 | **destroy** | infinitive · passive | | beasts *= beast* | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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} וּנְתָנָ֛ם יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לְפָנֶ֑יךָ וְהָמָם֙ מְהוּמָ֣ה גְדֹלָ֔ה עַ֖ד הִשָּׁמְדָֽם׃ [Deuteronomy 7:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:243` 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 7:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.242/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 7:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.244/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 7:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.7.23/)