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title: Deuteronomy 3:6 (JPS 1917) — And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones. Who acts: we. Deuteronomy 3:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 3:6 · JPS 1917

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And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** destroy · **To what, where:** cities, city

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This is Deuteronomy 3:6 · 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 (we), 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:89
# text = And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Sihon	Sihon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Heshbon	Heshbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past | we | cities *= city* |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **destroy** | gerund | we *not said here* | every city and the men and the women and the little ones |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |

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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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וַנַּחֲרֵ֣ם אוֹתָ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֔ינוּ לְסִיחֹ֖ן מֶ֣לֶךְ חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן הַחֲרֵם֙ כָּל־עִ֣יר מְתִ֔ם הַנָּשִׁ֖ים וְהַטָּֽף׃

[Deuteronomy 3:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.6/)

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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:89` 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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