--- title: Malachi 3:18 (JPS 1917) — Then shall ye again discern between the righteous and the wicked, be… · tree and pragmatics description: Then shall ye again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not. Who acts: ye. 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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 (ye), 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:66 # text = Then shall ye again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 discern discern VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 between between ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 righteous righteous NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 wicked wicked NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 between between ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 serveth serve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 conj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 serveth serve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **discern** | shall | ye | | | | then; again | between the righteous and the wicked; between Lord | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **serve** | present | | God | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute | | 3 | **not** **serve** | present | | Lord | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | 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} וְשַׁבְתֶּם֙ וּרְאִיתֶ֔ם בֵּ֥ין צַדִּ֖יק לְרָשָׁ֑ע בֵּ֚ין עֹבֵ֣ד אֱלֹהִ֔ים לַאֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֥א עֲבָדֽוֹ׃ס [Malachi 3:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MAL:66` 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 3:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.65/) - next →: [Malachi 3:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.67/) - ↑ back to [Malachi 3:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.18/)