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title: Malachi 1:7 (JPS 1917) — And ye say: 'Wherein have we polluted thee?' In that ye say: 'The ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: And ye say: 'Wherein have we polluted thee?' In that ye say: 'The table of the LORD is contemptible.' Who acts: ye, we, table. 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 2 of 2

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And ye say: 'Wherein have we polluted thee?' In that ye say: 'The table of the LORD is contemptible.'

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**Who acts:** ye, we, table · **What happens:** say, pollute, be · **To what, where:** thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Malachi 1:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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, we, table), 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:9
# text = And ye say: 'Wherein have we polluted thee?' In that ye say: 'The table of the LORD is contemptible.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	polluted	pollute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	In	in	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	contemptible	contemptible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pollute** | present · perfect | we | thee |  |  |  | wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the table of the LORD |  |  |  |  | contemptible *property* | 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.8/)
2. **And ye say: 'Wherein have we polluted thee?' In that ye say: 'The table of the LORD is contemptible.'**

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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:9` 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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