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title: Deuteronomy 9:14 (JPS 1917) — let Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from… · tree and pragmatics
description: let Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.' Who acts: you, I, people. Deuteronomy 9:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 9:14 · JPS 1917

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let Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.'

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**Who acts:** you, I, people · **What happens:** let, destroy, blot out, make, name · **To what, where:** Me, people, name, heaven, nation

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This is Deuteronomy 9:14 · 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 (you, I, people), 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:280
# text = let Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.'
1	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	blot	blot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	conj	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Me |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | may | I | people |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **blot out** | infinitive | I *not said here* | people's name |  | heaven |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme name=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | future | I | a nation |  |  |  | of thee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Product |
| 5 | **name** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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הֶ֤רֶף מִמֶּ֙נִּי֙ וְאַשְׁמִידֵ֔ם וְאֶמְחֶ֣ה אֶת־שְׁמָ֔ם מִתַּ֖חַת הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ אֽוֹתְךָ֔ לְגוֹי־עָצ֥וּם וָרָ֖ב מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

[Deuteronomy 9:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.9.14/)

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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:280` 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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