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title: Malachi 1:9 (JPS 1917) — And now, I pray you, entreat the favour of God that He may be gracio… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now, I pray you, entreat the favour of God that He may be gracious unto us! — This hath been of your doing. — Will He accept any of your persons? saith the LORD of hosts. Who acts: I, LORD, This. Malachi 1:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 1:9 · JPS 1917

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And now, I pray you, entreat the favour of God that He may be gracious unto us! — This hath been of your doing. — Will He accept any of your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.

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**Who acts:** I, LORD, This · **What happens:** pray, entreat, be, accept, say, favour · **To what, where:** you, favour, any, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Malachi 1:9 · 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 (I, LORD, This), 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:13
# text = And now, I pray you, entreat the favour of God that He may be gracious unto us! — This hath been of your doing. — Will He accept any of your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	entreat	entreat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
23	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	doing	doing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
29	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
38	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | I | you |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **entreat** | present | I *not said here* | the favour of God |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | may | LORD |  |  |  |  | unto us; gracious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present · perfect | This |  |  |  |  | of your doing | tree rules |
| 5 | **accept** | future | LORD | any |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **favour** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וְעַתָּ֛ה חַלּוּ־נָ֥א פְנֵי־אֵ֖ל וִֽיחָנֵ֑נוּמִיֶּדְכֶם֙ הָ֣יְתָה זֹּ֔את הֲיִשָּׂ֤א מִכֶּם֙ פָּנִ֔ים אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃

[Malachi 1:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.1.9/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MAL:13` 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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