--- title: Micah 6:2 (JPS 1917) — Hear, O ye mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye enduring rocks,… · tree and pragmatics description: Hear, O ye mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye enduring rocks, the foundations of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with His people, and He will plead with Israel. Who acts: you, ye, LORD. 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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 (you, ye, LORD), 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:79 # text = Hear, O ye mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye enduring rocks, the foundations of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with His people, and He will plead with Israel. 1 Hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 4 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 det _ _ 5 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 vocative _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 'S 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 controversy controversy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ _ 14 enduring endure VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 15 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 foundations foundation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 hath have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 controversy controversy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 plead plead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | the LORD's controversy | | | | ye mountains *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer controversy=Stimulus | | 2 | **endure** | gerund | ye | rocks | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Circumstance | | 3 | **have** | present | the LORD | a controversy | | | | with LORD's people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent controversy=Patient | | 4 | **plead** *speech: request* | future | LORD | | | | | with Israel | tree rules | 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} שִׁמְע֤וּ הָרִים֙ אֶת־רִ֣יב יְהוָ֔ה וְהָאֵתָנִ֖ים מֹ֣סְדֵי אָ֑רֶץ כִּ֣י רִ֤יב לַֽיהוָה֙ עִם־עַמּ֔וֹ וְעִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִתְוַכָּֽח׃ [Micah 6:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.6.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MIC:79` 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. - ← previous: [Micah 6:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.78/) - next →: [Micah 6:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.80/) - ↑ back to [Micah 6:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.6.2/)