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title: Micah 7:14 (JPS 1917) — Tend Thy people with Thy staff, the flock of Thy heritage, that dwel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tend Thy people with Thy staff, the flock of Thy heritage, that dwell solitarily, as a forest in the midst of the fruitful field; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. Who acts: you, flock, people. Micah 7:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Micah 7:14 · JPS 1917

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Tend Thy people with Thy staff, the flock of Thy heritage, that dwell solitarily, as a forest in the midst of the fruitful field; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

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**Who acts:** you, flock, people · **What happens:** tend, dwell, let, feed · **To what, where:** people, Bashan

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This is Micah 7:14 · JPS 1917 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 (you, flock, people), 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:MIC:112
# text = Tend Thy people with Thy staff, the flock of Thy heritage, that dwell solitarily, as a forest in the midst of the fruitful field; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
1	Tend	tend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	solitarily	solitarily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Bashan	Bashan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **tend** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy people |  |  |  | with Thy staff | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **dwell** | present | the flock of Thy heritage |  |  |  |  | as a forest in the midst of the fruitful field; solitarily *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feed** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | Bashan and Gilead | day |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bashan=Location |

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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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רְעֵ֧ה עַמְּךָ֣ בְשִׁבְטֶ֗ךָ צֹ֚אן נַֽחֲלָתֶ֔ךָ שֹׁכְנִ֣י לְבָדָ֔ד יַ֖עַר בְּת֣וֹךְ כַּרְמֶ֑ל יִרְע֥וּ בָשָׁ֛ן וְגִלְעָ֖ד כִּימֵ֥י עוֹלָֽם׃

[Micah 7:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.14/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MIC:112` 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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