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title: Deuteronomy 9:5 (JPS 1917) — Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that He may establish the word which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
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# Deuteronomy 9:5 · JPS 1917

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Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that He may establish the word which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD · **What happens:** go in, possess, drive out, establish, swear · **To what, where:** land, people, thee, word, Abraham

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This is Deuteronomy 9:5 · 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:271
# text = Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that He may establish the word which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	uprightness	uprightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	before	before	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	obj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	_
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
64	to	to	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	_
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | present · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  | for thy righteousness or the uprightness of thy heart | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for righteousness=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **possess** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | people's land |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme |
| 3 | **drive out** | present · 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 |
| 4 | **establish** | may | LORD | the word |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 5 | **swear** | past | the LORD | the word | Abraham and Isaac and Jacob |  |  | unto thy fathers | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |

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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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לֹ֣א בְצִדְקָתְךָ֗ וּבְיֹ֙שֶׁר֙ לְבָ֣בְךָ֔ אַתָּ֥ה בָ֖א לָרֶ֣שֶׁת אֶת־אַרְצָ֑ם כִּ֞י בְּרִשְׁעַ֣ת ׀ הַגּוֹיִ֣ם הָאֵ֗לֶּה יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ מוֹרִישָׁ֣ם מִפָּנֶ֔יךָ וּלְמַ֜עַן הָקִ֣ים אֶת־הַדָּבָ֗ר אֲשֶׁ֨ר נִשְׁבַּ֤ע יְהוָה֙ לַאֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם לְיִצְחָ֖ק וּֽלְיַעֲקֹֽב׃

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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:271` of Mova's parse database.

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