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title: Obadiah 1:5 (JPS 1917) — If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning… · tree and pragmatics
description: If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? Who acts: grape gatherers, gatherers. Obadiah 1:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Obadiah 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?

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**Who acts:** grape gatherers, gatherers · **What happens:** come, not leave, gleaning · **To what, where:** thee, gleaning grapes

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This is Obadiah 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (grape gatherers, gatherers), 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:6
# text = If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	gatherers	gatherer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	gleaning	gleaning	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	amod	_	_
15	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | grape gatherers |  |  | thee |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | would | gatherers *= gatherer* | some gleaning grapes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Theme |
| 3 | **gleaning** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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אִם־גַּנָּבִ֤ים בָּאֽוּ־לְךָ֙ אִם־שׁ֣וֹדְדֵי לַ֔יְלָה אֵ֣יךְ נִדְמֵ֔יתָה הֲל֥וֹא יִגְנְב֖וּ דַּיָּ֑ם אִם־בֹּֽצְרִים֙ בָּ֣אוּ לָ֔ךְ הֲל֖וֹא יַשְׁאִ֥ירוּ עֹלֵלֽוֹת׃

[Obadiah 1:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night — how art thou cut off! — would they not steal till they had enough?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/OBA.5/)
2. **If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?**

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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:6` 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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