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title: Deuteronomy 9:26 (JPS 1917) — And I prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'O Lord GOD, destroy not Thy p… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'O Lord GOD, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness, that Thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Who acts: I, Thou, Thine. Deuteronomy 9:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Deuteronomy 9:26 · JPS 1917

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And I prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'O Lord GOD, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness, that Thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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**Who acts:** I, Thou, Thine · **What happens:** pray, say, not destroy, redeem, bring, inherit · **To what, where:** people, greatness, Egypt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 9:26 · 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 (I, Thou, Thine), 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:293
# text = And I prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'O Lord GOD, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness, that Thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
12	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
13	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
26	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	redeemed	redeem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
33	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj	_	_
34	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
36	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | I |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **destroy** | infinitive |  | Thy people and Thine inheritance |  |  |  | Lord GOD *vocative* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 4 | **redeem** | present · perfect | Thou | Thy people and Thine inheritance |  | Thy greatness |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | present · perfect | Thou | Thy people and Thine inheritance |  | Egypt |  | with a mighty hand; forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent that=Theme out egypt=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **inherit** |  | Thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act 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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וָאֶתְפַּלֵּ֣ל אֶל־יְהוָה֮ וָאֹמַר֒ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה אַל־תַּשְׁחֵ֤ת עַמְּךָ֙ וְנַחֲלָ֣תְךָ֔ אֲשֶׁ֥ר פָּדִ֖יתָ בְּגָדְלֶ֑ךָ אֲשֶׁר־הוֹצֵ֥אתָ מִמִּצְרַ֖יִם בְּיָ֥ד חֲזָקָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 9:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.9.26/)

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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:293` 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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