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title: Deuteronomy 1:4 (JPS 1917) — after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in He… · tree and pragmatics
description: after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei; Who acts: LORD, king, Og. Deuteronomy 1:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 1:4 · JPS 1917

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after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei;

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**Who acts:** LORD, king, Og · **What happens:** smite, dwell · **To what, where:** Sihon, Edrei, Heshbon, Ashtaroth

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This is Deuteronomy 1:4 · 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 (LORD, king, Og), 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:3
# text = after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei;
1	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Sihon	Sihon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Amorites	Amorites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Heshbon	Heshbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Og	Og	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Bashan	Bashan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Ashtaroth	Ashtaroth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Edrei	Edrei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **smite** | past · perfect | LORD | Sihon and Og |  | Edrei |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sihon=Experiencer |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | the king of the Amorites |  |  | Heshbon |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heshbon=Location |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | Og |  |  | Ashtaroth |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ashtaroth=Location |

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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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אַחֲרֵ֣י הַכֹּת֗וֹ אֵ֚ת סִיחֹן֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן וְאֵ֗ת ע֚וֹג מֶ֣לֶךְ הַבָּשָׁ֔ן אֲשֶׁר־יוֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּעַשְׁתָּרֹ֖ת בְּאֶדְרֶֽעִי׃

[Deuteronomy 1:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.4/)

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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:3` 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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