--- title: Micah 2:7 (JPS 1917) — Do I change, O house of Jacob? · tree and pragmatics description: Do I change, O house of Jacob? Who acts: I. Micah 2:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Micah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC/) / [chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC/2/) / [2:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.7/) / JPS 1 # Micah 2:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 4 Do I change, O house of Jacob? **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** change This is Micah 2:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 4 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 (I), 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:26 # text = Do I change, O house of Jacob? 1 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 O o INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 6 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 vocative _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present · do-support | I | | | | | house of Jacob *vocative* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} הֶאָמ֣וּר בֵּֽית־יַעֲקֹ֗ב הֲקָצַר֙ ר֣וּחַ יְהוָ֔ה אִם־אֵ֖לֶּה מַעֲלָלָ֑יו הֲל֤וֹא דְבָרַ֨י יֵיטִ֔יבוּ עִ֖ם הַיָּשָׁ֥ר הוֹלֵֽךְ׃ [Micah 2:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.7/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Do I change, O house of Jacob?** 2. [Is the spirit of the LORD straitened?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.27/) 3. [Are these His doings?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.28/) 4. [Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.29/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MIC:26` 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. - ← previous: [Micah 2:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.25/) - next →: [Micah 2:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.27/) - ↑ back to [Micah 2:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.7/)