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title: Judges 11:24 (JPS 1917) — Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to poss… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? Who acts: thou, Chemosh. Judges 11:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 11:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess?

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**Who acts:** thou, Chemosh · **What happens:** not possess, give, possess · **To what, where:** that, thee

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This is Judges 11:24 · 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 (thou, Chemosh), 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:JDG:361
# text = Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess?
1	Wilt	will	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
7	Chemosh	Chemosh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	iobj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **possess** | future | thou | that |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | Chemosh |  | thee |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **possess** | to-infinitive | Chemosh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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הֲלֹ֞א אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁ֧ר יוֹרִֽישְׁךָ֛ כְּמ֥וֹשׁ אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ אוֹת֥וֹ תִירָ֑שׁ וְאֵת֩ כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֨ר הוֹרִ֜ישׁ יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵ֛ינוּ מִפָּנֵ֖ינוּ אוֹת֥וֹ נִירָֽשׁ׃

[Judges 11:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.24/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess?**
2. [So whomsoever the LORD our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.362/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:361` 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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