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title: Obadiah 1:17 (JPS 1917) — But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be… · tree and pragmatics
description: But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. Who acts: mount, house, nations. Obadiah 1:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Obadiah 1:17 · JPS 1917

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But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

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**Who acts:** mount, house, nations · **What happens:** escape, be, possess · **To what, where:** possessions

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This is Obadiah 1:17 · 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 (mount, house, nations), 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:OBA:19
# text = But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	escape	escape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **escape** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | shall | mount |  |  |  |  | holy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **possess** | shall | the house of Jacob | nations's possessions |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot possession=Theme |
| 4 | **possess** |  | nations *= nation* |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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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וּבְהַ֥ר צִיּ֛וֹן תִּהְיֶ֥ה פְלֵיטָ֖ה וְהָ֣יָה קֹ֑דֶשׁ וְיָֽרְשׁוּ֙ בֵּ֣ית יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב אֵ֖ת מוֹרָֽשֵׁיהֶם׃

[Obadiah 1:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.17/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:OBA:19` 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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