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title: Joel 2:15 (JPS 1917) — Blow the horn in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; · tree and pragmatics
description: Blow the horn in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; Who acts: you. Joel 2:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joel 2:15 · JPS 1917

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Blow the horn in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** blow, sanctify, call · **To what, where:** horn, fast, solemn assembly · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Joel 2:15 · 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), 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:35
# text = Blow the horn in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;
1	Blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sanctify	sanctify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fast	fast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | imperative | you *not said here* | the horn |  |  |  | in Zion | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent horn=Patient in zion=Topic |
| 2 | **sanctify** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a fast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a solemn assembly |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent assembly=Recipient |

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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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תִּקְע֥וּ שׁוֹפָ֖ר בְּצִיּ֑וֹן קַדְּשׁוּ־צ֖וֹם קִרְא֥וּ עֲצָרָֽה׃

[Joel 2:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.15/)

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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:35` 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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