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title: Joel 1:13 (JPS 1917) — Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests, wail, ye ministers of the a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests, wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God; for the meal-offering and the drink-offering is withholden from the house of your God. Who acts: you, ye. Joel 1:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Joel 1:13 · JPS 1917

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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests, wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God; for the meal-offering and the drink-offering is withholden from the house of your God.

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**Who acts:** you, ye · **What happens:** gird, lament, priest, wail, minister, come · **To what, where:** yourselves, sackcloth, meal offering, house

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This is Joel 1:13 · 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 (you, ye), 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:JOL:13
# text = Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests, wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God; for the meal-offering and the drink-offering is withholden from the house of your God.
1	Gird	gird	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lament	lament	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	vocative	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wail	wail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	vocative	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
36	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
41	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	withholden	withhold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **gird** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourselves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lament** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **priest** |  | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wail** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **minister** |  | ye |  |  |  |  | of the altar | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **lie** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | sackcloth | night |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sackcloth=Location |
| 8 | **minister** |  | ye |  |  |  |  | of my God | tree rules |
| 9 | **withhold** | present · passive |  | the meal offering and the drink offering |  | the house of your God |  |  | 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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חִגְר֨וּ וְסִפְד֜וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֗ים הֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ מְשָׁרְתֵ֣י מִזְבֵּ֔חַ בֹּ֚אוּ לִ֣ינוּ בַשַּׂקִּ֔ים מְשָׁרְתֵ֖י אֱלֹהָ֑י כִּ֥י נִמְנַ֛ע מִבֵּ֥ית אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם מִנְחָ֥ה וָנָֽסֶךְ׃

[Joel 1:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.13/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOL:13` of Mova's parse database.

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