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title: Jeremiah 49:1 (JPS 1917) — Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad, and his people dwell in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof? Who acts: Malcam, people. Jeremiah 49:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 49:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 4

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Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?

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**Who acts:** Malcam, people · **What happens:** take, dwell, possess · **To what, where:** possession, cities, Gad

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This is Jeremiah 49:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 4 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 (Malcam, people), 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:JER:1289
# text = Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Malcam	Malcam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Gad	Gad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · do-support | Malcam | possession of Gad |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 2 | **dwell** | present | Malcam's people |  |  | the cities |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
| 3 | **possess** |  |  | Gad |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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לִבְנֵ֣י עַמּ֗וֹן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הֲבָנִ֥ים אֵין֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־יוֹרֵ֖שׁ אֵ֣ין ל֑וֹ מַדּ֗וּעַ יָרַ֤שׁ מַלְכָּם֙ אֶת־גָּ֔ד וְעַמּ֖וֹ בְּעָרָ֥יו יָשָֽׁב׃

[Jeremiah 49:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Of the children of Ammon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1286/)
2. [Thus saith the LORD: Hath Israel no sons?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1287/)
3. [Hath he no heir?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1288/)
4. **Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1289` 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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