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title: Judges 18:31 (JPS 1917) — So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time… · tree and pragmatics
description: So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. Who acts: children, image, house, Micah. Judges 18:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 18:31 · JPS 1917

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So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

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**Who acts:** children, image, house, Micah · **What happens:** set up, make, be, image · **To what, where:** Danites, graven image, time, Shiloh

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This is Judges 18:31 · 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 (children, image, house, Micah), 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:549
# text = So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	Micah	Micah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	graven	graven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Shiloh	Shiloh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **set up** | past | children *= child* | Danites |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme image=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | past | image | Micah's graven image |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | the house of God | all time *not said here* |  | Shiloh |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **image** |  | Micah |  |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=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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וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ לָהֶ֔ם אֶת־פֶּ֥סֶל מִיכָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה כָּל־יְמֵ֛י הֱי֥וֹת בֵּית־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃פ

[Judges 18:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.31/)

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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:549` 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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