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title: Malachi 1:7 (JPS 1917) — Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar. · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar. Who acts: Ye. Malachi 1:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 1:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar.

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**Who acts:** Ye · **What happens:** offer, pollute · **To what, where:** polluted bread

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This is Malachi 1:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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:8
# text = Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar.
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
2	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	polluted	pollute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | present | Ye | polluted bread |  |  |  | upon Mine altar | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
| 2 | **pollute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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מַגִּישִׁ֤ים עַֽל־מִזְבְּחִי֙ לֶ֣חֶם מְגֹאָ֔ל וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם בַּמֶּ֣ה גֵֽאַלְנ֑וּךָ בֶּאֱמָרְכֶ֕ם שֻׁלְחַ֥ן יְהוָ֖ה נִבְזֶ֥ה הֽוּא׃

[Malachi 1:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.1.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar.**
2. [And ye say: 'Wherein have we polluted thee?' In that ye say: 'The table of the LORD is contemptible.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.9/)

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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:8` 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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