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title: Micah 6:6 (JPS 1917) — 'Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God o… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Who acts: I. Micah 6:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 6:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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'Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** come, bow · **To what, where:** myself, high

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This is Micah 6:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (I), 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:85
# text = 'Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	obl	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | I |  |  |  | before the LORD |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before lord=Location |
| 2 | **bow** | infinitive | I *not said here* | myself |  | high | before God |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic |

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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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בַּמָּה֙ אֲקַדֵּ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה אִכַּ֖ף לֵאלֹהֵ֣י מָר֑וֹם הַאֲקַדְּמֶ֣נּוּ בְעוֹל֔וֹת בַּעֲגָלִ֖ים בְּנֵ֥י שָׁנָֽה׃

[Micah 6:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.6.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **'Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high?**
2. [Shall I come before Him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.86/)

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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:85` 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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