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title: Joel 4:9 (JPS 1917) — Proclaim ye this among the nations, prepare war; stir up the mighty… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proclaim ye this among the nations, prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Who acts: ye, men. Joel 4:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joel 4:9 · JPS 1917

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Proclaim ye this among the nations, prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

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**Who acts:** ye, men · **What happens:** proclaim, prepare, stir up, let, draw, come up · **To what, where:** this, war, mighty men, men

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This is Joel 4:9 · 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 (ye, 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:JOL:61
# text = Proclaim ye this among the nations, prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
1	Proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	stir	stir	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
24	near	near	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	up	up	ADV	RP	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proclaim** | infinitive | ye | this |  |  |  | among the nations | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 2 | **prepare** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | war |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient |
| 3 | **stir up** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | the mighty men |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition man=Patient |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | all men of war |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **draw** | infinitive | all men of war *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come up** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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קִרְאוּ־זֹאת֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם קַדְּשׁ֖וּ מִלְחָמָ֑ה הָעִ֙ירוּ֙ הַגִּבּוֹרִ֔ים יִגְּשׁ֣וּ יַֽעֲל֔וּ כֹּ֖ל אַנְשֵׁ֥י הַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

[Joel 4:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.9/)

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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:61` 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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