--- title: Malachi 3:2 (JPS 1917) — And who shall stand when he appeareth? · tree and pragmatics description: And who shall stand when he appeareth? Who acts: messenger. Malachi 3:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Malachi](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL/) / [chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL/3/) / [3:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.2/) / JPS 2 # Malachi 3:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 And who shall stand when he appeareth? **Who acts:** messenger · **What happens:** stand, appear This is Malachi 3:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (messenger), 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:44 # text = And who shall stand when he appeareth? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 appeareth appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | shall | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **appear** | present | messenger | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וּמִ֤י מְכַלְכֵּל֙ אֶת־י֣וֹם בּוֹא֔וֹ וּמִ֥י הָעֹמֵ֖ד בְּהֵרָֽאוֹת֑וֹ כִּֽי־הוּא֙ כְּאֵ֣שׁ מְצָרֵ֔ף וּכְבֹרִ֖ית מְכַבְּסִֽים׃ [Malachi 3:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.2/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [But who may abide the day of his coming?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.43/) 2. **And who shall stand when he appeareth?** 3. [For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.45/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MAL:44` 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. - ← previous: [Malachi 3:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.43/) - next →: [Malachi 3:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.45/) - ↑ back to [Malachi 3:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.2/)