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title: Malachi 1:10 (JPS 1917) — Oh that there were even one among you that would shut the doors, tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh that there were even one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on Mine altar in vain! Who acts: ye. Malachi 1:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 1:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Oh that there were even one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on Mine altar in vain!

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** shut, not kindle · **To what, where:** doors, fire, altar

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This is Malachi 1:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (ye), 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:14
# text = Oh that there were even one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on Mine altar in vain!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	kindle	kindle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	vain	vain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | would |  | the doors |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **kindle** | might | ye | fire |  | Mine altar |  | in vain | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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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מִ֤י גַם־בָּכֶם֙ וְיִסְגֹּ֣ר דְּלָתַ֔יִם וְלֹֽא־תָאִ֥ירוּ מִזְבְּחִ֖י חִנָּ֑ם אֵֽין־לִ֨י חֵ֜פֶץ בָּכֶ֗ם אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת וּמִנְחָ֖ה לֹֽא־אֶרְצֶ֥ה מִיֶּדְכֶֽם׃

[Malachi 1:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.1.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Oh that there were even one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on Mine altar in vain!**
2. [I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.15/)

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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:14` 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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