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title: Micah 1:5 (JPS 1917) — What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? Who acts: house, Jacob. Micah 1:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3

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What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria?

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**Who acts:** house, Jacob · **What happens:** be, not be, transgress · **To what, where:** Samaria

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This is Micah 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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 (house, Jacob), 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:5
# text = What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	transgression	transgression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	Samaria	Samaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | house | Samaria |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **transgress** |  | Jacob |  |  |  |  |  | nom transgression «act intransitive»: of=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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בְּפֶ֤שַׁע יַֽעֲקֹב֙ כָּל־זֹ֔את וּבְחַטֹּ֖אות בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מִֽי־פֶ֣שַׁע יַעֲקֹ֗ב הֲלוֹא֙ שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹן וּמִי֙ בָּמ֣וֹת יְהוּדָ֔ה הֲל֖וֹא יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Micah 1:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.4/)
2. **What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria?**
3. [And what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.6/)

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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:5` 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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