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title: Micah 2:7 (JPS 1917) — Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly? · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly? Who acts: words, My. Micah 2:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 2:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 4

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Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

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**Who acts:** words, My · **What happens:** not do, walk, word · **To what, where:** good, spirit

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This is Micah 2:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 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 (words, My), 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:29
# text = Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	walketh	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	uprightly	uprightly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | present · do-support | My words | good | spirit |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 2 | **walk** | present |  |  |  |  |  | uprightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **word** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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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/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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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?](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?**

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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:29` 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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