---
title: Deuteronomy 2:5 (JPS 1917) — contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, no… · tree and pragmatics
description: contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. Who acts: you, I. Deuteronomy 2:5 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.50/)

<!-- 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/2/) / [2:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.5/) / JPS 1

# Deuteronomy 2:5 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not contend, not give, tread on, give · **To what, where:** you, mount Seir

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Deuteronomy 2:5 · 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 (you, I), 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:50
# text = contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
1	contend	contend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	10	discourse	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sole	sole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
36	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Seir	Seir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **contend** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with people | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **give** | future | I |  | you |  |  | of people's land; for the sole of the foot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme for sole=Asset |
| 3 | **tread on** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present · perfect | I | mount Seir |  |  |  | unto Esau; for a possession | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent seir=Theme for possession=Asset |

<!-- .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 -->
אַל־תִּתְגָּר֣וּ בָ֔ם כִּ֠י לֹֽא־אֶתֵּ֤ן לָכֶם֙ מֵֽאַרְצָ֔ם עַ֖ד מִדְרַ֣ךְ כַּף־רָ֑גֶל כִּֽי־יְרֻשָּׁ֣ה לְעֵשָׂ֔ו נָתַ֖תִּי אֶת־הַ֥ר שֵׂעִֽיר׃

[Deuteronomy 2:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.5/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:50` 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 2:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.49/)
- next →: [Deuteronomy 2:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.51/)
- ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 2:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.5/)