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title: Malachi 2:13 (JPS 1917) — And this further ye do: ye cover the altar of the LORD with tears, w… · tree and pragmatics
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# Malachi 2:13 · JPS 1917

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And this further ye do: ye cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that He regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand.

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**Who acts:** ye, LORD · **What happens:** do, cover, not regard, receive · **To what, where:** this, altar, offering, hand

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This is Malachi 2:13 · 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 (ye, LORD), 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:34
# text = And this further ye do: ye cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that He regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
3	further	further	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sighing	sighing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	insomuch	insomuch	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	regardeth	regard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	any	any	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	35	cc	_	_
35	receiveth	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	will	will	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **do** | present | ye | this |  |  |  | further *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cover** | present | ye | the altar of the LORD |  |  |  | with tears; with weeping; with sighing | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent altar=Destination with tear=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **regard** | present | LORD | the offering |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 4 | **receive** | present | LORD *not said here* | offering |  | your hand |  | with good will | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at hand=Location |

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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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וְזֹאת֙ שֵׁנִ֣ית תַּֽעֲשׂ֔וּ כַּסּ֤וֹת דִּמְעָה֙ אֶת־מִזְבַּ֣ח יְהוָ֔ה בְּכִ֖י וַֽאֲנָקָ֑ה מֵאֵ֣ין ע֗וֹד פְּנוֹת֙ אֶל־הַמִּנְחָ֔ה וְלָקַ֥חַת רָצ֖וֹן מִיֶּדְכֶֽם׃

[Malachi 2:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.2.13/)

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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:34` 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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