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title: Micah 5:4 (JPS 1917) — And this shall be peace: when the Assyrian shall come into our land,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And this shall be peace: when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight princes among men. Who acts: this, Assyrian, we. Micah 5:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 5:4 · JPS 1917

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And this shall be peace: when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight princes among men.

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**Who acts:** this, Assyrian, we · **What happens:** be, come, tread, raise · **To what, where:** peace, land, palaces, seven shepherds

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This is Micah 5:4 · 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 (this, Assyrian, we), 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:67
# text = And this shall be peace: when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight princes among men.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Assyrian	Assyrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
29	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
37	among	among	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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** | shall | this | peace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | shall | the Assyrian |  |  | our land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tread** | shall | Assyrian |  |  | our palaces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Trajectory |
| 4 | **raise** | shall | we | seven shepherds and eight princes among men |  |  | then | against Assyrian | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme against he=Destination |

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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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וְהָיָ֥ה זֶ֖ה שָׁל֑וֹם אַשּׁ֣וּר ׀ כִּֽי־יָב֣וֹא בְאַרְצֵ֗נוּ וְכִ֤י יִדְרֹךְ֙ בְּאַרְמְנֹתֵ֔ינוּ וַהֲקֵמֹ֤נוּ עָלָיו֙ שִׁבְעָ֣ה רֹעִ֔ים וּשְׁמֹנָ֖ה נְסִיכֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃

[Micah 5:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.5.4/)

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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:67` 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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