Malachi 2:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3
For what seeketh the one? a seed given of God.
What happens: seek, give · To what, where: one, seed
This is Malachi 2:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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: 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 | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 seeketh | obl |
| 3 | seeketh | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeketh | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeketh | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 seed | det |
| 8 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeketh | parataxis |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seed | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 God | case |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present | the one | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Location for what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | participle | a seed not said here | of God | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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
וְלֹא־אֶחָ֣ד עָשָׂ֗ה וּשְׁאָ֥ר ר֙וּחַ֙ ל֔וֹ וּמָה֙ הָֽאֶחָ֔ד מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ זֶ֣רַע אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙ בְּר֣וּחֲכֶ֔ם וּבְאֵ֥שֶׁת נְעוּרֶ֖יךָ אַל־יִבְגֹּֽד׃
Malachi 2:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And not one hath done so who had exuberance of spirit!
- For what seeketh the one? a seed given of God.
- Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:MAL:37 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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