--- title: Deuteronomy 12:29 (JPS 1917) — When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, wh… · tree and pragmatics description: When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; Who acts: LORD, thou. Deuteronomy 12:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.379/) [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/) / [12:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.29/) / JPS 1 # Deuteronomy 12:29 · JPS 1917 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; **Who acts:** LORD, thou · **What happens:** cut off, go in, dispossess, dwell · **To what, where:** nations, thee, land This is Deuteronomy 12:29 · 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, thou), 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:379 # text = When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 advcl _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 before before ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 whither whither ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 17 goest go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 in in ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 dispossess dispossess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 25 dispossessest dispossess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 dwellest dwell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut off** | shall | the LORD | the nations | | thee | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent nation=Theme from thou=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **go in** | present | thou | | | | | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dispossess** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | nations *= nation* | | | | | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source | | 4 | **dispossess** | present | thou | nations *= nation* | | | | | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source | | 5 | **dwell** | present | thou *not said here* | | | nations's land | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | 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} כִּֽי־יַכְרִית֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ אֶת־הַגּוֹיִ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר אַתָּ֥ה בָא־שָׁ֛מָּה לָרֶ֥שֶׁת אוֹתָ֖ם מִפָּנֶ֑יךָ וְיָרַשְׁתָּ֣ אֹתָ֔ם וְיָשַׁבְתָּ֖ בְּאַרְצָֽם׃ [Deuteronomy 12:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.29/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:379` 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. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 12:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.378/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 12:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.380/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 12:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.29/)