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title: Micah 7:18 (JPS 1917) — Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth the iniquity, and passet… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth the iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? Who acts: God, remnant. Micah 7:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 7:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth the iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?

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**Who acts:** God, remnant · **What happens:** be, pardon, pass, transgress · **To what, where:** God, iniquity

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This is Micah 7:18 · 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 (God, remnant), 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:116
# text = Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth the iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pardoneth	pardon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	passeth	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	transgression	transgression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	remnant	remnant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a God |  |  |  | like Thee | tree rules |
| 2 | **pardon** | present | a God | the iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | present | a God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the transgression of the remnant of God's heritage | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by transgression=Location |
| 4 | **transgress** |  | the remnant of God's heritage |  |  |  |  |  | nom transgression «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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מִי־אֵ֣ל כָּמ֗וֹךָ נֹשֵׂ֤א עָוֺן֙ וְעֹבֵ֣ר עַל־פֶּ֔שַׁע לִשְׁאֵרִ֖ית נַחֲלָת֑וֹ לֹא־הֶחֱזִ֤יק לָעַד֙ אַפּ֔וֹ כִּֽי־חָפֵ֥ץ חֶ֖סֶד הֽוּא׃

[Micah 7:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth the iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?**
2. [He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.117/)

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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:116` 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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