Malachi 1:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master; if then I be a father, where is My honour? and if I be a master, where is My fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise My name.
Who acts: son, I, LORD, priests, My · What happens: honour, be, say, despise, name · To what, where: father, honour, master, fear, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Malachi 1:6 · 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 (son, I, LORD, priests), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 honoureth | nsubj |
| 3 | honoureth | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 saith | ccomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 honoureth | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 servant | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 servant | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 servant | det |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 honoureth | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 servant | orphan |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 honour | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 father | mark |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 father | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 father | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 father | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 father | det |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 honour | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 father | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 honour | advmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 honour | cop |
| 22 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 honour | nmod:poss |
| 23 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 honoureth | parataxis |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 honour | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fear | cc |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 master | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 master | nsubj |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 master | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 master | det |
| 30 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fear | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 master | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 fear | advmod |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 fear | cop |
| 34 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 fear | nmod:poss |
| 35 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 honour | conj |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 fear | punct |
| 37 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 LORD | det |
| 39 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 saith | nsubj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 hosts | case |
| 41 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 LORD | nmod |
| 42 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 43 you | case |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 saith | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 priests | punct |
| 45 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 46 priests | discourse |
| 46 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 saith | vocative |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 despise | punct |
| 48 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 despise | nsubj |
| 49 | despise | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 priests | acl:relcl |
| 50 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 name | nmod:poss |
| 51 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 despise | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 saith | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour | present | a son | son's father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | I | a father | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | My honour and My fear | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | I | a master | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | My fear | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | the LORD of hosts | unto you; priests vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | despise | present | priests | My name | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | name | My | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
בֵּ֛ן יְכַבֵּ֥ד אָ֖ב וְעֶ֣בֶד אֲדֹנָ֑יו וְאִם־אָ֣ב אָ֣נִי אַיֵּ֣ה כְבוֹדִ֡י וְאִם־אֲדוֹנִ֣ים אָנִי֩ אַיֵּ֨ה מוֹרָאִ֜י אָמַ֣ר ׀ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֗וֹת לָכֶם֙ הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ בּוֹזֵ֣י שְׁמִ֔י וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם בַּמֶּ֥ה בָזִ֖ינוּ אֶת־שְׁמֶֽךָ׃
Malachi 1:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master; if then I be a father, where is My honour? and if I be a master, where is My fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise My name.
- And ye say: 'Wherein have we despised Thy name?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:MAL:6 of Mova's parse database.
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