--- title: Obadiah 1:18 (JPS 1917) — And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a fl… · tree and pragmatics description: And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken. Who acts: house, fire, remaining, LORD. 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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 (house, fire, remaining, LORD), 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:20 # text = And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 stubble stubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 kindle kindle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 devour devour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 42 expl _ _ 40 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 43 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 44 det _ _ 44 remaining remaining NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 50 ; ; PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 51 for for SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 54 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | shall | the house of Jacob | a fire and the house of Joseph and a flame and the house of Esau | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **kindle** | shall | fire | | | | | in nations *= nation* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **devour** | infinitive | fire *not said here* | nations *= nation* | | | | | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **not** **be** | shall | any remaining of the house of Esau | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the LORD | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וְהָיָה֩ בֵית־יַעֲקֹ֨ב אֵ֜שׁ וּבֵ֧ית יוֹסֵ֣ף לֶהָבָ֗ה וּבֵ֤ית עֵשָׂו֙ לְקַ֔שׁ וְדָלְק֥וּ בָהֶ֖ם וַאֲכָל֑וּם וְלֹֽא־יִֽהְיֶ֤השָׂרִיד֙ לְבֵ֣ית עֵשָׂ֔ו כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבֵּֽר׃ [Obadiah 1:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:OBA:20` 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. - ← previous: [Obadiah 1:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/OBA.19/) - next →: [Obadiah 1:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/OBA.21/) - ↑ back to [Obadiah 1:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.18/)