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title: Micah 7:16 (JPS 1917) — The nations shall see and be put to shame for all their might; they… · tree and pragmatics
description: The nations shall see and be put to shame for all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. Who acts: nations, ears. Micah 7:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 7:16 · JPS 1917

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The nations shall see and be put to shame for all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

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**Who acts:** nations, ears · **What happens:** see, put, lay, be · **To what, where:** hand, mouth

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This is Micah 7:16 · 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 (nations, ears), 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:114
# text = The nations shall see and be put to shame for all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	might	might	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | shall | the nations |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive · passive | the nations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to shame; for nations's might | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 3 | **lay** | shall | nations *= nation* | nations's hand |  | nations's mouth |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon mouth=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | shall | nations's ears |  |  |  |  | deaf *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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יִרְא֤וּ גוֹיִם֙ וְיֵבֹ֔שׁוּ מִכֹּ֖ל גְּבֽוּרָתָ֑ם יָשִׂ֤ימוּ יָד֙ עַל־פֶּ֔ה אָזְנֵיהֶ֖ם תֶּחֱרַֽשְׁנָה׃

[Micah 7:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.16/)

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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:114` 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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