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title: Micah 6:3 (JPS 1917) — Testify against Me. · tree and pragmatics
description: Testify against Me. Who acts: you. Micah 6:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 6:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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Testify against Me.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** testify

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This is Micah 6:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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 (you), 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:82
# text = Testify against Me.
1	Testify	testify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	against	against	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **testify** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Me | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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עַמִּ֛י מֶה־עָשִׂ֥יתִי לְךָ֖ וּמָ֣ה הֶלְאֵתִ֑יךָ עֲנֵ֥ה בִּֽי׃

[Micah 6:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.6.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [O My people, what have I done unto thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.80/)
2. [And wherein have I wearied thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.81/)
3. **Testify against Me.**

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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:82` 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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