Malachi 3:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3
But ye say: 'Wherein shall we return?'
Who acts: ye, we · What happens: say, return · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Malachi 3:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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: who acts (ye, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 say | cc |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 6 | Wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 return | advmod |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 return | aux |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 return | nsubj |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | return | shall | we | wherein property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
לְמִימֵ֨י אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֜ם סַרְתֶּ֤ם מֵֽחֻקַּי֙ וְלֹ֣א שְׁמַרְתֶּ֔ם שׁ֤וּבוּ אֵלַי֙ וְאָשׁ֣וּבָה אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם בַּמֶּ֥ה נָשֽׁוּב׃
Malachi 3:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from Mine ordinances, and have not kept them.
- Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
- But ye say: 'Wherein shall we return?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:MAL:52 of Mova's parse database.
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