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title: Micah 1:16 (JPS 1917) — Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delight; enlar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delight; enlarge thy baldness as the vulture; for they are gone into captivity from thee. Who acts: you, thy. Micah 1:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 1:16 · JPS 1917

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Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delight; enlarge thy baldness as the vulture; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

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**Who acts:** you, thy · **What happens:** make, poll, enlarge, gone, delight · **To what, where:** thee, baldness, children, captivity

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This is Micah 1:16 · 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 (you, thy), 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:17
# text = Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delight; enlarge thy baldness as the vulture; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
3	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	poll	poll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	enlarge	enlarge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	baldness	baldness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	vulture	vulture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	gone	gone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | thee |  |  |  | bald *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thou=Product |
| 2 | **poll** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thee |  |  |  | for the children of thy delight | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Source |
| 3 | **enlarge** | infinitive |  | thy baldness |  |  |  | as the vulture | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent baldness=Patient |
| 4 | **gone** | present · passive |  | children *= child* |  | captivity |  | from thee | tree rules |
| 5 | **delight** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «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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קָרְחִ֣י וָגֹ֔זִּי עַל־בְּנֵ֖י תַּעֲנוּגָ֑יִךְ הַרְחִ֤בִי קָרְחָתֵךְ֙ כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁר כִּ֥י גָל֖וּ מִמֵּֽךְ׃ס

[Micah 1:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.16/)

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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:17` 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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