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title: Joel 4:21 (JPS 1917) — And I will hold as innocent their blood that I have not held as inno… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I will hold as innocent their blood that I have not held as innocent; and the LORD dwelleth in Zion. Who acts: I, LORD. Joel 4:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joel 4:21 · JPS 1917

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And I will hold as innocent their blood that I have not held as innocent; and the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

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**Who acts:** I, LORD · **What happens:** hold, not hold, dwell · **To what, where:** blood, Zion

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This is Joel 4:21 · 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 (I, 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:74
# text = And I will hold as innocent their blood that I have not held as innocent; and the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	dwelleth	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | future | I | Judah's blood |  |  |  | innocent *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **hold** | present · perfect | I | Judah's blood |  |  |  | innocent *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | present | the LORD |  |  | Zion |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zion=Location |

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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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וְנִקֵּ֖יתִי דָּמָ֣ם לֹֽא־נִקֵּ֑יתִי וַֽיהוָ֖ה שֹׁכֵ֥ן בְּצִיּֽוֹן׃

[Joel 4:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.21/)

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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:74` 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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