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title: Micah 2:4 (JPS 1917) — In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament wit… · tree and pragmatics
description: In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me! Who acts: necks, LORD. Micah 2:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 2:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me!

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**Who acts:** necks, LORD · **What happens:** take up, lament, say, ruin, change, remove · **To what, where:** parable, We, portion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Micah 2:4 · 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 (necks, LORD), 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:22
# text = In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lament	lament	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	doleful	doleful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
24	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	changeth	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
38	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | shall | necks *= neck* | a parable |  |  | day | against you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent parable=Theme against you=Destination |
| 2 | **lament** | infinitive | necks *= neck* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a doleful lamentation | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | necks *= neck* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **ruin** | present · passive |  | We |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **change** | present | LORD | the portion of my people |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient |
| 6 | **remove** | present · do-support | LORD | portion |  |  |  | from me | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from i=Source |

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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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בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא יִשָּׂ֧א עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם מָשָׁ֗ל וְנָהָ֨ה נְהִ֤י נִֽהְיָה֙ אָמַר֙ שָׁד֣וֹד נְשַׁדֻּ֔נוּ חֵ֥לֶק עַמִּ֖י יָמִ֑יר אֵ֚יךְ יָמִ֣ישׁ לִ֔י לְשׁוֹבֵ֥ב שָׂדֵ֖ינוּ יְחַלֵּֽק׃

[Micah 2:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me!**
2. [Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.23/)

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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:22` 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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