--- title: Joel 4:14 (JPS 1917) — For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. · tree and pragmatics description: For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. Who acts: day. Joel 4:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.67/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Joel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL/4/) / [4:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.14/) / JPS 2 # Joel 4:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. **Who acts:** day · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** valley This is Joel 4:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (day), 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:67 # text = For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 near near ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the day of the LORD | | | the valley of decision | | near *property* | tree rules | 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} הֲמוֹנִ֣ים הֲמוֹנִ֔ים בְּעֵ֖מֶק הֶֽחָר֑וּץ כִּ֤י קָרוֹב֙ י֣וֹם יְהוָ֔ה בְּעֵ֖מֶק הֶחָרֽוּץ׃ [Joel 4:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.14/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.66/) 2. **For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOL:67` 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. - ← previous: [Joel 4:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.66/) - next →: [Joel 4:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.68/) - ↑ back to [Joel 4:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.14/)