Malachi 3:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3
But ye say: 'Wherein have we robbed Thee?' In tithes and heave-offerings.
Who acts: ye, we · What happens: say, rob · To what, where: Thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Malachi 3:8 · 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 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 robbed | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 robbed | punct |
| 6 | Wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 robbed | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 robbed | aux |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 robbed | nsubj |
| 9 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 say | ccomp |
| 10 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 robbed | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 robbed | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 robbed | punct |
| 13 | In | in | ADP | _ | 14 tithes | case |
| 14 | tithes | tithe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 offerings | cc |
| 16 | heave | heave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offerings | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 heave | punct |
| 18 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tithes | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask
| # | 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 | rob | present · perfect | we | Thee | wherein property | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Source |
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
הֲיִקְבַּ֨ע אָדָ֜ם אֱלֹהִ֗ים כִּ֤י אַתֶּם֙ קֹבְעִ֣ים אֹתִ֔י וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם בַּמֶּ֣ה קְבַעֲנ֑וּךָ הַֽמַּעֲשֵׂ֖ר וְהַתְּרוּמָֽה׃
Malachi 3:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Will a man rob God?
- Yet ye rob Me.
- But ye say: 'Wherein have we robbed Thee?' In tithes and heave-offerings.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:MAL:55 of Mova's parse database.
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