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title: Micah 6:11 (JPS 1917) — 'Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful w… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?' Who acts: I. Micah 6:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Micah 6:11 · JPS 1917

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'Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?'

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

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This is Micah 6:11 · 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 (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:92
# text = 'Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	balances	balance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	weights	weight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | with wicked balances; pure *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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הַאֶזְכֶּ֖ה בְּמֹ֣אזְנֵי רֶ֑שַׁע וּבְכִ֖יס אַבְנֵ֥י מִרְמָֽה׃

[Micah 6:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.6.11/)

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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:92` 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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