Malachi 2:7 · JPS 1917
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Who acts: lips, LORD · What happens: keep, seek, be · To what, where: knowledge, law, mouth, messenger
This is Malachi 2:7 · 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 (lips, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lips | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 priest | case |
| 5 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seek | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seek | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seek | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 seek | aux |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 keep | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 law | det |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 messenger | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 messenger | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 messenger | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 messenger | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 messenger | det |
| 24 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 LORD | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 LORD | det |
| 27 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 messenger | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 hosts | case |
| 29 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 LORD | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
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- act
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- voice
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- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | should | the priest's lips | knowledge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | should | lips = lip | the law | LORD's mouth | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent law=Theme at mouth=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | present | LORD | the messenger | of the LORD of hosts | tree rules |
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
כִּֽי־שִׂפְתֵ֤י כֹהֵן֙ יִשְׁמְרוּ־דַ֔עַת וְתוֹרָ֖ה יְבַקְשׁ֣וּ מִפִּ֑יהוּ כִּ֛י מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָֽה־צְבָא֖וֹת הֽוּא׃
Malachi 2:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:MAL:26 of Mova's parse database.
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