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title: Deuteronomy 2:23 (JPS 1917) — and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim,… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead. — Who acts: Avvim, Caphtorim. Deuteronomy 2:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 2:23 · JPS 1917

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and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead. —

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**Who acts:** Avvim, Caphtorim · **What happens:** dwell, come, destroy · **To what, where:** villages, Caphtor, children, stead

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This is Deuteronomy 2:23 · 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 (Avvim, Caphtorim), 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:69
# text = and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead. —
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Avvim	Avvim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Caphtorim	Caphtorim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Caphtor	Caphtor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	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** | past | the Avvim |  |  | villages |  | far *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Caphtorim |  |  | Caphtor |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out caphtor=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **destroy** | past | the Avvim | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **dwell** | past | the Avvim *not said here* |  |  | children's stead |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stead=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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וְהָֽעַוִּ֛ים הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים בַּחֲצֵרִ֖ים עַד־עַזָּ֑ה כַּפְתֹּרִים֙ הַיֹּצְאִ֣ים מִכַּפְתּ֔וֹר הִשְׁמִידֻ֖ם וַיֵּשְׁב֥וּ תַחְתָּֽם׃

[Deuteronomy 2:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.23/)

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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:69` 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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