--- title: Micah 7:1 (JPS 1917) — Woe is me! for I am as the last of the summer fruits, as the grape g… · tree and pragmatics description: Woe is me! for I am as the last of the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage; there is no cluster to eat; nor first-ripe fig which my soul desireth. Who acts: Woe, I, cluster, soul. 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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 (Woe, I, cluster, soul), 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:98 # text = Woe is me! for I am as the last of the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage; there is no cluster to eat; nor first-ripe fig which my soul desireth. 1 Woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 5 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 7 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 grape grape NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 gleanings gleaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 vintage vintage NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 cluster cluster NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 35 cc _ _ 32 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 amod _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 ripe ripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 fig fig NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obj _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 desireth desire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=express | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Woe | me | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | I | | | | | of the summer fruits; as the grape gleanings of the vintage; last *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **does** | present | no cluster nor ripe fig | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | no cluster nor ripe fig *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **desire** | present | my soul | ripe fig | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | 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} אַ֣לְלַי לִ֗י כִּ֤י הָיִ֙יתִי֙ כְּאָסְפֵּי־קַ֔יִץ כְּעֹלְלֹ֖ת בָּצִ֑יר אֵין־אֶשְׁכּ֣וֹל לֶאֱכ֔וֹל בִּכּוּרָ֖ה אִוְּתָ֥ה נַפְשִֽׁי׃ [Micah 7:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MIC:98` 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 6:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.97/) - next →: [Micah 7:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.99/) - ↑ back to [Micah 7:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.1/)