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title: Malachi 1:8 (JPS 1917) — And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it no evil! · tree and pragmatics
description: And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it no evil! Who acts: ye, blind. Malachi 1:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 1:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it no evil!

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**Who acts:** ye, blind · **What happens:** offer, not be · **To what, where:** blind, evil

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This is Malachi 1:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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, blind), 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:MAL:10
# text = And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it no evil!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blind	blind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	no	no	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=evaluate, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | present | ye | the blind |  |  |  | for sacrifice *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent blind=Theme for sacrifice=Goal |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | blind | evil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וְכִֽי־תַגִּשׁ֨וּן עִוֵּ֤ר לִזְבֹּ֙חַ֙ אֵ֣ין רָ֔ע וְכִ֥י תַגִּ֛ישׁוּ פִּסֵּ֥חַ וְחֹלֶ֖ה אֵ֣ין רָ֑ע הַקְרִיבֵ֨הוּ נָ֜א לְפֶחָתֶ֗ךָ הֲיִּרְצְךָ֙א֚וֹ הֲיִשָּׂ֣א פָנֶ֔יךָ אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃

[Malachi 1:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.1.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it no evil!**
2. [And when ye offer the lame and sick, is it no evil!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.11/)
3. [Present it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.12/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MAL:10` 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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