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title: Micah 6:7 (JPS 1917) — Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands… · tree and pragmatics
description: Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Who acts: LORD. Micah 6:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 6:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil?

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** be

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This is Micah 6:7 · 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 (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:87
# text = Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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** | future | the LORD |  |  |  |  | with thousands of rams; with ten thousands of rivers of oil; pleased *property* | tree rules |

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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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הֲיִרְצֶ֤ה יְהוָה֙ בְּאַלְפֵ֣י אֵילִ֔ים בְּרִֽבְב֖וֹת נַֽחֲלֵי־שָׁ֑מֶן הַאֶתֵּ֤ן בְּכוֹרִי֙ פִּשְׁעִ֔י פְּרִ֥י בִטְנִ֖י חַטַּ֥את נַפְשִֽׁי׃

[Micah 6:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.6.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil?**
2. [Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.88/)

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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:87` 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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