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title: Deuteronomy 2:8 (JPS 1917) — So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell i… · tree and pragmatics
description: So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion-geber. Who acts: we, children. Deuteronomy 2:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 2:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion-geber.

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**Who acts:** we, children · **What happens:** pass by, dwell · **To what, where:** brethren, Seir

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This is Deuteronomy 2:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (we, children), 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:53
# text = So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion-geber.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Seir	Seir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Arabah	Arabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Elath	Elath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Ezion	Ezion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
31	geber	geber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **pass by** | past | we |  |  | our brethren |  | from the way of the Arabah; from Elath and Ezion geber | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from brethren=Initial\_Location from way=Destination |
| 2 | **dwell** | present | the children of Esau |  |  | Seir |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in seir=Location |

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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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וַֽנַּעֲבֹ֞ר מֵאֵ֧ת אַחֵ֣ינוּ בְנֵי־עֵשָׂ֗ו הַיֹּֽשְׁבִים֙ בְּשֵׂעִ֔יר מִדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ הָֽעֲרָבָ֔ה מֵאֵילַ֖ת וּמֵעֶצְיֹ֣נ גָּ֑בֶר עֶצְיֹ֣נ גָּ֑בֶרס וַנֵּ֙פֶן֙ וַֽנַּעֲבֹ֔ר דֶּ֖רֶךְ מִדְבַּ֥ר מוֹאָֽב׃

[Deuteronomy 2:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion-geber.**
2. [And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.54/)

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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:53` 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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