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title: Joel 2:21 (JPS 1917) — Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice; for the LORD hath done great… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice; for the LORD hath done great things. Who acts: you, LORD. Joel 2:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joel 2:21 · JPS 1917

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Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice; for the LORD hath done great things.

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**Who acts:** you, LORD · **What happens:** not fear, be, rejoice, do · **To what, where:** great things

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This is Joel 2:21 · 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, LORD), 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:41
# text = Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice; for the LORD hath done great things.
1	Fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | land *vocative* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rejoice** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **do** | present · perfect | the LORD | great things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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אַל־תִּֽירְאִ֖י אֲדָמָ֑ה גִּ֣ילִי וּשְׂמָ֔חִי כִּֽי־הִגְדִּ֥יל יְהוָ֖ה לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃

[Joel 2:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.21/)

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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:41` 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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