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title: Malachi 3:6 (JPS 1917) — For I the LORD change not; and ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. · tree and pragmatics
description: For I the LORD change not; and ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. Who acts: I. Malachi 3:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 3:6 · JPS 1917

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For I the LORD change not; and ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not change, not consume · **To what, where:** ye

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This is Malachi 3:6 · 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), 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:49
# text = For I the LORD change not; and ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	vocative	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **consume** | present · passive |  | ye |  |  |  | sons of Jacob *vocative* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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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כִּ֛י אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לֹ֣א שָׁנִ֑יתִי וְאַתֶּ֥ם בְּנֵֽי־יַעֲקֹ֖ב לֹ֥א כְלִיתֶֽם׃

[Malachi 3:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.6/)

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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:49` 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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