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title: Deuteronomy 18:14 (JPS 1917) — For these nations, that thou art to dispossess, hearken unto soothsa… · tree and pragmatics
description: For these nations, that thou art to dispossess, hearken unto soothsayers, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. Who acts: LORD. Deuteronomy 18:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 18:14 · JPS 1917

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For these nations, that thou art to dispossess, hearken unto soothsayers, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** dispossess, hearken, not suffer, do · **To what, where:** nations, thee

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This is Deuteronomy 18:14 · 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), 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:512
# text = For these nations, that thou art to dispossess, hearken unto soothsayers, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	dispossess	dispossess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hearken	hearken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	soothsayers	soothsayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	diviners	diviner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
31	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	obj	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed hedge=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dispossess** | present |  | this nations |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Source |
| 2 | **hearken** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for this nations; unto soothsayers and diviners | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **suffer** | present · perfect | the LORD | thee |  |  |  | as thee | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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כִּ֣י ׀ הַגּוֹיִ֣ם הָאֵ֗לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֤ר אַתָּה֙ יוֹרֵ֣שׁ אוֹתָ֔ם אֶל־מְעֹנְנִ֥ים וְאֶל־קֹסְמִ֖ים יִשְׁמָ֑עוּ וְאַתָּ֕ה לֹ֣א כֵ֔ן נָ֛תַןלְךָ֖ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃

[Deuteronomy 18:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.18.14/)

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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:512` 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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