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title: Deuteronomy 9:4 (JPS 1917) — Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath thrust… · tree and pragmatics
description: Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying: 'For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land'; whereas for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. Who acts: thou, LORD. Deuteronom
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# Deuteronomy 9:4 · JPS 1917

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Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying: 'For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land'; whereas for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD · **What happens:** not speak, thrust out, say, bring in, possess, drive out · **To what, where:** heart, people, thee, me, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 9:4 · 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, 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:270
# text = Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying: 'For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land'; whereas for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
1	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	thrust	thrust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
25	For	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
40	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	doth	do	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	out	out	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	before	before	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	50	obl	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | thou |  |  | thy heart |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **thrust out** | present · perfect | the LORD | people |  | thee |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from thou=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring in** | present · perfect | the LORD | me |  |  |  | for my righteousness | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Asset |
| 5 | **possess** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | this land |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme |
| 6 | **drive out** | do-support | the LORD | people |  | thee |  | for the wickedness of this nations | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from thou=Trajectory |

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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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אַל־תֹּאמַ֣ר בִּלְבָבְךָ֗ בַּהֲדֹ֣ף יְהוָה֩ אֱלֹהֶ֨יךָ אֹתָ֥ם ׀ מִלְּפָנֶיךָ֮ לֵאמֹר֒ בְּצִדְקָתִי֙ הֱבִיאַ֣נִי יְהוָ֔ה לָרֶ֖שֶׁת אֶת־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את וּבְרִשְׁעַת֙ הַגּוֹיִ֣ם הָאֵ֔לֶּה יְהוָ֖ה מוֹרִישָׁ֥ם מִפָּנֶֽיךָ׃

[Deuteronomy 9:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.9.4/)

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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:270` of Mova's parse database.

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