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title: Micah 7:18 (JPS 1917) — He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy. · tree and pragmatics
description: He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy. Who acts: God. 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 2 of 2

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He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** not retain, delight, anger · **To what, where:** anger, mercy

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This is Micah 7:18 · 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 (God), 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:117
# text = He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	retaineth	retain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	2	advmod	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	delighteth	delight	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **retain** | present | God | God's anger |  |  |  | for *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **delight** | present | God |  |  | mercy |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **anger** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.116/)
2. **He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy.**

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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:117` 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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