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title: Micah 3:11 (JPS 1917) — The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach fo… · tree and pragmatics
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# Micah 3:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say: 'Is not the LORD in the midst of us?

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**Who acts:** heads, priests, prophets · **What happens:** judge, teach, divine, lean, say, not be · **To what, where:** LORD, midst · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Micah 3:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (heads, priests, prophets), 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:46
# text = The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say: 'Is not the LORD in the midst of us?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	judge	judge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hire	hire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	divine	divine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
36	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	ccomp	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nmod	_	_
45	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | present | the heads |  |  |  |  | for reward | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for reward=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the priests |  |  |  |  | for hire | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **divine** | present | the prophets |  |  |  |  | for money | tree rules |
| 4 | **lean** | future | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  | upon the LORD | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon lord=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | heads *= head* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | present |  | the LORD |  | the midst of us |  |  | 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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רָאשֶׁ֣יהָ ׀ בְּשֹׁ֣חַד יִשְׁפֹּ֗טוּ וְכֹהֲנֶ֙יהָ֙ בִּמְחִ֣יר יוֹר֔וּ וּנְבִיאֶ֖יהָ בְּכֶ֣סֶף יִקְסֹ֑מוּ וְעַל־יְהוָה֙ יִשָּׁעֵ֣נוּ לֵאמֹ֔ר הֲל֤וֹא יְהוָה֙ בְּקִרְבֵּ֔נוּ לֹֽא־תָב֥וֹא עָלֵ֖ינוּ רָעָֽה׃

[Micah 3:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.3.11/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say: 'Is not the LORD in the midst of us?**
2. [No evil shall come upon us'?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.47/)

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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:46` of Mova's parse database.

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