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title: Genesis 49:10 (JPS 1917) — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, as long as men come to Shiloh; and unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be. Who acts: sceptre, men. Genesis 49:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 49:10 · JPS 1917

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The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, as long as men come to Shiloh; and unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

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**Who acts:** sceptre, men · **What happens:** not depart, come, obey · **To what, where:** Judah, Shiloh, peoples

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This is Genesis 49:10 · 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 (sceptre, 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:GEN:1609
# text = The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, as long as men come to Shiloh; and unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Shiloh	Shiloh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **depart** | shall | the sceptre nor the ruler's staff from Judah's feet |  |  | Judah |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from judah=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | men |  |  | Shiloh |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shiloh=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **obey** |  |  | the peoples |  |  |  |  | nom obedience «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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לֹֽא־יָס֥וּר שֵׁ֙בֶט֙ מִֽיהוּדָ֔ה וּמְחֹקֵ֖ק מִבֵּ֣ין רַגְלָ֑יו עַ֚ד כִּֽי־יָבֹ֣א שִׁיל֔וֹ וְל֖וֹ יִקְּהַ֥ת עַמִּֽים׃

[Genesis 49:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.10/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1609` 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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