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title: Malachi 2:12 (JPS 1917) — May the LORD cut off to the man that doeth this, him that calleth an… · tree and pragmatics
description: May the LORD cut off to the man that doeth this, him that calleth and him that answereth out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. Who acts: LORD, man. Malachi 2:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 2:12 · JPS 1917

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May the LORD cut off to the man that doeth this, him that calleth and him that answereth out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

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**Who acts:** LORD, man · **What happens:** cut off, do, call, answer, offer · **To what, where:** this, tents, offering · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Malachi 2:12 · 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 (LORD, man), 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:33
# text = May the LORD cut off to the man that doeth this, him that calleth and him that answereth out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	doeth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	appos	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	calleth	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	conj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	answereth	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	conj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	offereth	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other, act=express, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | may | the LORD |  |  |  |  | to the man | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | the man | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 3 | **call** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  | the tents of Jacob |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **offer** | present |  | a offering |  |  |  | unto the LORD of hosts | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |

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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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יַכְרֵ֨ת יְהוָ֜ה לָאִ֨ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יַעֲשֶׂ֙נָּה֙ עֵ֣ר וְעֹנֶ֔ה מֵאָהֳלֵ֖י יַֽעֲקֹ֑ב וּמַגִּ֣ישׁ מִנְחָ֔ה לַֽיהוָ֖ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃פ

[Malachi 2:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.2.12/)

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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:33` 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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