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title: Deuteronomy 2:4 (JPS 1917) — And command thou the people, saying: Ye are to pass through the bord… · tree and pragmatics
description: And command thou the people, saying: Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore; Who acts: thou, Ye, children, people. Deuteronomy 2:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree an
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# Deuteronomy 2:4 · JPS 1917

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And command thou the people, saying: Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore;

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**Who acts:** thou, Ye, children, people · **What happens:** command, say, be, dwell, take · **To what, where:** people, border, Seir, good heed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Deuteronomy 2:4 · 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 (thou, Ye, children, people), 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:49
# text = And command thou the people, saying: Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Seir	Seir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
37	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
38	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nsubj	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	37	obl	_	_
43	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **command** | infinitive | thou | the people |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | Ye |  |  | the border of your brethren |  | pass *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwell** | present | the children of Esau |  |  | Seir |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in seir=Location |
| 5 | **is** | future | people |  |  |  |  | of you; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive | ye | good heed |  |  |  | unto yourselves; therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |

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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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וְאֶת־הָעָם֮ צַ֣ו לֵאמֹר֒ אַתֶּ֣ם עֹֽבְרִ֗ים בִּגְבוּל֙ אֲחֵיכֶ֣ם בְּנֵי־עֵשָׂ֔ו הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים בְּשֵׂעִ֑יר וְיִֽירְא֣וּ מִכֶּ֔ם וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּ֖ם מְאֹֽד׃

[Deuteronomy 2:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.4/)

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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:49` 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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