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title: Obadiah 1:7 (JPS 1917) — All the men of thy confederacy have conducted thee to the border; th… · tree and pragmatics
description: All the men of thy confederacy have conducted thee to the border; the men that were at peace with thee have beguiled thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee, in whom there is no discernment. Who acts: men. Obadiah 1:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and 
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# Obadiah 1:7 · JPS 1917

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All the men of thy confederacy have conducted thee to the border; the men that were at peace with thee have beguiled thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee, in whom there is no discernment.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** conduct, be, beguile, prevail, eat, lay · **To what, where:** thee, border, peace, bread, snare, discernment

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This is Obadiah 1:7 · 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 (men), 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:9
# text = All the men of thy confederacy have conducted thee to the border; the men that were at peace with thee have beguiled thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee, in whom there is no discernment.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	confederacy	confederacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	beguiled	beguile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	under	under	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	obl	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	47	expl	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
47	discernment	discernment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	acl:relcl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **conduct** | present · perfect | all men of thy confederacy | thee |  | the border |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to border=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the men |  |  | peace |  | with thee | tree rules |
| 3 | **beguile** | present · perfect | the men | thee |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer |
| 4 | **prevail** | participle | the men *not said here* |  |  | thee |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against thou=Location |
| 5 | **eat** | present |  | thy bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 6 | **lay** | present | men *= man* | a snare |  | thee |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snare=Theme under thou=Destination |
| 7 | **is a** | present |  | no discernment |  | a snare; there |  |  | 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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עַֽד־הַגְּב֣וּל שִׁלְּח֗וּךָ כֹּ֚ל אַנְשֵׁ֣י בְרִיתֶ֔ךָ הִשִּׁיא֛וּךָ יָכְל֥וּ לְךָ֖ אַנְשֵׁ֣י שְׁלֹמֶ֑ךָ לַחְמְךָ֗ יָשִׂ֤ימוּ מָזוֹר֙ תַּחְתֶּ֔יךָ אֵ֥ין תְּבוּנָ֖ה בּֽוֹ׃

[Obadiah 1:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.7/)

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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:9` 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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