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title: Obadiah 1:20 (JPS 1917) — And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, that are a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, that are among the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath, and the captivity of Jerusalem, that is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South. Who acts: children, captivity. Obadiah 1:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Obadiah 1:20 · JPS 1917

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And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, that are among the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath, and the captivity of Jerusalem, that is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South.

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**Who acts:** children, captivity · **What happens:** be, possess · **To what, where:** Sepharad, cities

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This is Obadiah 1:20 · 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, captivity), 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:22
# text = And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, that are among the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath, and the captivity of Jerusalem, that is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Canaanites	Canaanites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Zarephath	Zarephath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Sepharad	Sepharad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	acl:relcl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	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 | **is** | present | the children of Israel |  |  |  |  | among the Canaanites; unto Zarephath | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the captivity of Jerusalem |  |  | Sepharad |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **possess** | shall | the captivity of this host of the children of Israel and the captivity of Jerusalem | the cities of the South |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot city=Theme |

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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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וְגָלֻ֣ת הַֽחֵל־הַ֠זֶּה לִבְנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל אֲשֶֽׁר־כְּנַעֲנִים֙ עַד־צָ֣רְפַ֔ת וְגָלֻ֥ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר בִּסְפָרַ֑ד יִֽרְשׁ֕וּ אֵ֖ת עָרֵ֥י הַנֶּֽגֶב׃

[Obadiah 1:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.20/)

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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:22` 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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