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title: Micah 2:11 (JPS 1917) — If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie: 'I will preach unto t… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie: 'I will preach unto thee of wine and of strong drink'; he shall even be the preacher of this people. Who acts: man, I, mantle. Micah 2:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 2:11 · JPS 1917

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If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie: 'I will preach unto thee of wine and of strong drink'; he shall even be the preacher of this people.

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**Who acts:** man, I, mantle · **What happens:** walk, lie, preach, be · **To what, where:** wind, preacher

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This is Micah 2:11 · 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 (man, I, mantle), 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:33
# text = If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie: 'I will preach unto thee of wine and of strong drink'; he shall even be the preacher of this people.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	preach	preach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	preacher	preacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | a man *not said here* |  |  | wind and falsehood |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lie** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **preach** *speech: other* | future | I |  |  |  |  | unto thee; of wine and strong drink | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | shall | mantle | the preacher |  |  |  | of this people | tree rules |

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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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לוּ־אִ֞ישׁ הֹלֵ֥ךְ ר֙וּחַ֙ וָשֶׁ֣קֶר כִּזֵּ֔ב אַטִּ֣ף לְךָ֔ לַיַּ֖יִן וְלַשֵּׁכָ֑ר וְהָיָ֥ה מַטִּ֖יף הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃

[Micah 2:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.11/)

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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:33` 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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