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title: Zephaniah 2:3 (JPS 1917) — Seek ye the LORD, all ye humble of the earth, that have executed His… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seek ye the LORD, all ye humble of the earth, that have executed His ordinance; seek righteousness, seek humility. Who acts: ye, anger. Zephaniah 2:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zephaniah 2:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Seek ye the LORD, all ye humble of the earth, that have executed His ordinance; seek righteousness, seek humility.

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**Who acts:** ye, anger · **What happens:** seek, execute, ordain · **To what, where:** LORD, ordinance, righteousness, humility

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This is Zephaniah 2:3 · 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 (ye, anger), 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:ZEP:20
# text = Seek ye the LORD, all ye humble of the earth, that have executed His ordinance; seek righteousness, seek humility.
1	Seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	det	_	_
8	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	ordinance	ordinance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
20	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	humility	humility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- 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 | **seek** | infinitive | ye | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 2 | **execute** | present · perfect |  | anger's ordinance |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinance=Patient |
| 3 | **seek** | infinitive |  | righteousness |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteousness=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | infinitive |  | humility |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent humility=Theme |
| 5 | **ordain** |  | anger |  |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=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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בַּקְּשׁ֤וּ אֶת־יְהוָה֙ כָּל־עַנְוֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר מִשְׁפָּט֖וֹ פָּעָ֑לוּ בַּקְּשׁוּ־צֶ֙דֶק֙ בַּקְּשׁ֣וּ עֲנָוָ֔ה אוּלַי֙ תִּסָּ֣תְר֔וּ בְּי֖וֹם אַף־יְהוָֽה׃

[Zephaniah 2:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Seek ye the LORD, all ye humble of the earth, that have executed His ordinance; seek righteousness, seek humility.**
2. [It may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.21/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ZEP:20` 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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