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title: Micah 3:7 (JPS 1917) — And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; ye… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their upper lips; for there shall be no answer of God. Who acts: diviners. Micah 3:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 3:7 · JPS 1917

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And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their upper lips; for there shall be no answer of God.

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**Who acts:** diviners · **What happens:** put, confound, cover, answer · **To what, where:** seers, upper lips, God

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This is Micah 3:7 · 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 (diviners), 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:42
# text = And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their upper lips; for there shall be no answer of God.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	seers	seer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	diviners	diviner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	confounded	confound	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | shall · passive |  | the seers |  |  |  | to shame | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **confound** | past | the diviners |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cover** | shall | diviners *= diviner* | diviners's upper lips |  |  |  | all *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lip=Destination |
| 4 | **answer** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: of=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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וּבֹ֣שׁוּהַחֹזִ֗ים וְחָֽפְרוּ֙ הַקֹּ֣סְמִ֔ים וְעָט֥וּ עַל־שָׂפָ֖ם כֻּלָּ֑ם כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין מַעֲנֵ֖ה אֱלֹהִֽים׃

[Micah 3:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.3.7/)

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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:42` 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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