--- title: Malachi 3:15 (JPS 1917) — And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are… · tree and pragmatics description: And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they try God, and are delivered.' Who acts: we, hosts. 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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 (we, hosts), 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:63 # text = And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they try God, and are delivered.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 proud proud NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 9 yea yea INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 13 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 wickedness wickedness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 yea yea INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 delivered deliver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | we | the proud | | | now | happy *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent proud=Recipient | | 2 | **work** | present | | wickedness | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wickedness=Material | | 3 | **build up** | present · passive | | hosts *= host* | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **try** | present | hosts *= host* | God | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Eventuality | | 5 | **deliver** | present · passive | hosts *= host* *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP» | 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} וְעַתָּ֕ה אֲנַ֖חְנוּ מְאַשְּׁרִ֣ים זֵדִ֑ים גַּם־נִבְנוּ֙ עֹשֵׂ֣י רִשְׁעָ֔ה גַּ֧ם בָּחֲנ֛וּ אֱלֹהִ֖ים וַיִּמָּלֵֽטוּ׃ [Malachi 3:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MAL:63` 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 3:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.62/) - next →: [Malachi 3:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.64/) - ↑ back to [Malachi 3:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.15/)