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title: Micah 3:5 (JPS 1917) — Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people to e… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that cry: 'Peace', when their teeth have any thing to bite; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him: Who acts: LORD, prophets, people, teeth. Micah 3:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and 
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# Micah 3:5 · JPS 1917

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Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that cry: 'Peace', when their teeth have any thing to bite; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

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**Who acts:** LORD, prophets, people, teeth, whoso · **What happens:** say, make, err, cry, have, bite · **To what, where:** people, Peace, thing, mouths, war · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Micah 3:5 · 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 (LORD, prophets, people, teeth), 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:40
# text = Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that cry: 'Peace', when their teeth have any thing to bite; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	concerning	concerning	ADP	VBG	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	err	err	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
31	whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	putteth	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	prepare	prepare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
41	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	against	against	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
44	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | concerning the prophets; thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | the prophets | my people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **err** | to-infinitive | my people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the prophets | Peace |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | present | people's teeth | any thing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 6 | **bite** | to-infinitive | people's teeth *not said here* | any thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **put** | present | whoso |  |  | people's mouths |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **prepare** | present | teeth *= tooth* | war |  |  |  | against LORD | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient |

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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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כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה עַל־הַנְּבִיאִ֖ים הַמַּתְעִ֣ים אֶת־עַמִּ֑י הַנֹּשְׁכִ֤ים בְּשִׁנֵּיהֶם֙ וְקָרְא֣וּ שָׁל֔וֹם וַאֲשֶׁר֙ לֹא־יִתֵּ֣ן עַל־פִּיהֶ֔ם וְקִדְּשׁ֥וּ עָלָ֖יו מִלְחָמָֽה׃

[Micah 3:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.3.5/)

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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:40` 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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