---
title: Deuteronomy 12:2 (JPS 1917) — Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree. Who acts: Ye, nations. Deuteronomy 12:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.352/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Deuteronomy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/) / [chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/12/) / [12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.2/) / JPS 1

# Deuteronomy 12:2 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Ye, nations · **What happens:** destroy, dispossess, serve · **To what, where:** places, nations, gods

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Deuteronomy 12:2 · 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 (Ye, nations), 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:352
# text = Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree.
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	dispossess	dispossess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	under	under	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
34	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | shall | Ye | all places |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **dispossess** | present | ye | the nations |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Source |
| 3 | **serve** | past | the nations | nations's gods |  |  |  | upon the high mountains and the hills and every leafy tree; wherein *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
אַבֵּ֣ד תְּ֠אַבְּדוּן אֶֽת־כָּל־הַמְּקֹמ֞וֹת אֲשֶׁ֧ר עָֽבְדוּ־שָׁ֣ם הַגּוֹיִ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתֶּ֛ם יֹרְשִׁ֥ים אֹתָ֖ם אֶת־אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם עַל־הֶהָרִ֤ים הָֽרָמִים֙ וְעַל־הַגְּבָע֔וֹת וְתַ֖חַת כָּל־עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָן׃

[Deuteronomy 12:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.2/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:352` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Deuteronomy 12:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.351/)
- next →: [Deuteronomy 12:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.353/)
- ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.2/)