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title: Joel 4:12 (JPS 1917) — Let the nations be stirred up, and come up to the valley of Jehoshap… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the nations be stirred up, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about. Who acts: you, I. Joel 4:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joel 4:12 · JPS 1917

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Let the nations be stirred up, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** let, stir up, come up, sit, judge · **To what, where:** nations, valley

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This is Joel 4:12 · 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 (you, I), 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:JOL:64
# text = Let the nations be stirred up, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Jehoshaphat	Jehoshaphat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	round	round	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stir up** | infinitive · passive |  | the nations |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **come up** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the valley of Jehoshaphat |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to valley=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sit** | future | I |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **judge** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | all nations |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent nation=Value |

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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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יֵע֙וֹרוּ֙ וְיַעֲל֣וּ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֶל־עֵ֖מֶק יְהֽוֹשָׁפָ֑ט כִּ֣י שָׁ֗ם אֵשֵׁ֛ב לִשְׁפֹּ֥ט אֶת־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם מִסָּבִֽיב׃

[Joel 4:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.12/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOL:64` 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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