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title: Deuteronomy 1:44 (JPS 1917) — And the Amorites, that dwell in that hill-country, came out against… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Amorites, that dwell in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah. Who acts: Amorites. Deuteronomy 1:44 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 1:44 · JPS 1917

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And the Amorites, that dwell in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah.

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**Who acts:** Amorites · **What happens:** dwell, come out, chase, beat down · **To what, where:** hill country, you

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This is Deuteronomy 1:44 · 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 (Amorites), 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:43
# text = And the Amorites, that dwell in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Amorites	amorite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Seir	Seir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Hormah	Hormah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **dwell** | present | the Amorites |  |  | that hill country |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 2 | **come out** | past | the Amorites |  |  |  |  | against you; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **chase** | past | the Amorites *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **beat down** | past | the Amorites *not said here* | you |  |  |  | unto Hormah; in Seir | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Patient in seir=Topic |

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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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וַיֵּצֵ֨א הָאֱמֹרִ֜י הַיֹּשֵׁ֨ב בָּהָ֤ר הַהוּא֙ לִקְרַאתְכֶ֔ם וַיִּרְדְּפ֣וּ אֶתְכֶ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ינָה הַדְּבֹרִ֑ים וַֽיַּכְּת֥וּ אֶתְכֶ֛ם בְּשֵׂעִ֖יר עַד־חָרְמָֽה׃

[Deuteronomy 1:44: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.44/)

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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:43` 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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