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title: Malachi 2:15 (JPS 1917) — Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. Who acts: you, none. Malachi 2:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 2:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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**Who acts:** you, none · **What happens:** take, let, deal · **To what, where:** heed, spirit

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This is Malachi 2:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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 (you, none), 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:38
# text = Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
11	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	treacherously	treacherously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | heed |  | your spirit |  | therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to spirit=Destination |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | none |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** | infinitive | none *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the wife of God's youth; treacherously *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְלֹא־אֶחָ֣ד עָשָׂ֗ה וּשְׁאָ֥ר ר֙וּחַ֙ ל֔וֹ וּמָה֙ הָֽאֶחָ֔ד מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ זֶ֣רַע אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙ בְּר֣וּחֲכֶ֔ם וּבְאֵ֥שֶׁת נְעוּרֶ֖יךָ אַל־יִבְגֹּֽד׃

[Malachi 2:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.2.15/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And not one hath done so who had exuberance of spirit!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.36/)
2. [For what seeketh the one? a seed given of God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.37/)
3. **Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.**

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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:38` 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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