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title: Malachi 2:9 (JPS 1917) — Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept My ways, but have had respect of persons in the law. Who acts: I, ye. Malachi 2:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 2:9 · JPS 1917

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Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept My ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

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**Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** make, accord, not keep, have, respect · **To what, where:** you, ways, respect, persons

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This is Malachi 2:9 · 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, 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:28
# text = Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept My ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	contemptible	contemptible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	base	base	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	according	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	mark	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
21	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
27	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect | I | you |  |  | before all people | contemptible, therefore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **keep** | present · perfect | ye | My ways |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present · perfect | ye *not said here* | respect of persons in the law |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Patient |
| 5 | **respect** |  |  | persons in the law |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition 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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וְגַם־אֲנִ֞י נָתַ֧תִּי אֶתְכֶ֛ם נִבְזִ֥ים וּשְׁפָלִ֖ים לְכָל־הָעָ֑ם כְּפִ֗י אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֵֽינְכֶם֙ שֹׁמְרִ֣ים אֶת־דְּרָכַ֔י וְנֹשְׂאִ֥ים פָּנִ֖ים בַּתּוֹרָֽה׃פ

[Malachi 2:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.2.9/)

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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:28` 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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