Micah 2:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me!
Who acts: necks, LORD · What happens: take up, lament, say, ruin, change, remove · To what, where: parable, We, portion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Micah 2:4 · 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 (necks, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 take | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 parable | det |
| 9 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 parable | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lament | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lament | cc |
| 14 | lament | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 lamentation | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lamentation | det |
| 17 | doleful | doleful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lamentation | amod |
| 18 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lament | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 say | cc |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 ruined | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 ruined | punct |
| 24 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ruined | aux:pass |
| 26 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 27 ruined | advmod |
| 27 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 say | ccomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 changeth | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 changeth | nsubj |
| 30 | changeth | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 portion | det |
| 32 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 changeth | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 people | nmod:poss |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 portion | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 remove | punct |
| 37 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 remove | advmod |
| 38 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 remove | aux |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 remove | nsubj |
| 40 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | parataxis |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 remove | obj |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 remove | obl |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | shall | necks = neck | a parable | day | against you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent parable=Theme against you=Destination | ||
| 2 | lament | infinitive | necks = neck not said here | with a doleful lamentation | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | necks = neck not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ruin | present · passive | We | utterly property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | change | present | LORD | the portion of my people | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient | ||||
| 6 | remove | present · do-support | LORD | portion | from me | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from i=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
בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא יִשָּׂ֧א עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם מָשָׁ֗ל וְנָהָ֨ה נְהִ֤י נִֽהְיָה֙ אָמַר֙ שָׁד֣וֹד נְשַׁדֻּ֔נוּ חֵ֥לֶק עַמִּ֖י יָמִ֑יר אֵ֚יךְ יָמִ֣ישׁ לִ֔י לְשׁוֹבֵ֥ב שָׂדֵ֖ינוּ יְחַלֵּֽק׃
Micah 2:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me!
- Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:MIC:22 of Mova's parse database.
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