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title: Malachi 3:7 (JPS 1917) — From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from Mine ordinan… · tree and pragmatics
description: From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from Mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Who acts: ye, Mine. Malachi 3:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 3:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from Mine ordinances, and have not kept them.

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**Who acts:** ye, Mine · **What happens:** turn, not keep, ordain · **To what, where:** ordinances

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This is Malachi 3:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (ye, Mine), 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:50
# text = From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from Mine ordinances, and have not kept them.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, voice=character, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present · perfect | ye |  |  | Mine ordinances | day | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from ordinance=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **keep** | present · perfect | ye *not said here* | ordinances *= ordinance* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **ordain** |  | Mine |  |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=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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לְמִימֵ֨י אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֜ם סַרְתֶּ֤ם מֵֽחֻקַּי֙ וְלֹ֣א שְׁמַרְתֶּ֔ם שׁ֤וּבוּ אֵלַי֙ וְאָשׁ֣וּבָה אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם בַּמֶּ֥ה נָשֽׁוּב׃

[Malachi 3:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from Mine ordinances, and have not kept them.**
2. [Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.51/)
3. [But ye say: 'Wherein shall we return?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.52/)

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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:50` 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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