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title: Micah 4:9 (JPS 1917) — Is there no King in thee, is thy Counsellor perished, that pangs hav… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is there no King in thee, is thy Counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail? Who acts: pangs. Micah 4:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 4:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Is there no King in thee, is thy Counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

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**Who acts:** pangs · **What happens:** perish, take hold · **To what, where:** Counsellor

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This is Micah 4:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (pangs), 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:58
# text = Is there no King in thee, is thy Counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	pangs	pang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
17	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	travail	travail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1, act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | present · passive |  | thy Counsellor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take hold** | present · perfect | pangs |  |  |  |  | of thee; as a woman in travail | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of thou=Initial\_Location |

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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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עַתָּ֕ה לָ֥מָּה תָרִ֖יעִי רֵ֑עַ הֲמֶ֣לֶךְ אֵֽין־בָּ֗ךְ אִֽם־יוֹעֲצֵךְ֙ אָבָ֔ד כִּֽי־הֶחֱזִיקֵ֥ךְ חִ֖יל כַּיּוֹלֵדָֽה׃

[Micah 4:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.4.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Now why dost thou cry out aloud?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.57/)
2. **Is there no King in thee, is thy Counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?**

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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:58` 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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