--- title: Micah 2:7 (JPS 1917) — Is the spirit of the LORD straitened? · tree and pragmatics description: Is the spirit of the LORD straitened? 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.27/) [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 2 # Micah 2:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 4 Is the spirit of the LORD straitened? **What happens:** straiten · **To what, where:** spirit This is Micah 2:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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: 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:27 # text = Is the spirit of the LORD straitened? 1 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 straitened straiten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **straiten** | present · passive | | the spirit of the LORD | | | | | tree rules | 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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.26/) 2. **Is the spirit of the LORD straitened?** 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:27` 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 2:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.26/) - next →: [Micah 2:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.28/) - ↑ back to [Micah 2:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.7/)