Job 1:16 · JPS 1917

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'A fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.'

Who acts: messenger, another, fire, I · What happens: speak, come, say, fall, burn up, consume · To what, where: heaven, sheep, thee, God · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Job 1:16 · JPS 1917 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 (messenger, another, fire, I), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 speaking	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speaking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speaking	aux
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 speaking	advmod
5	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 speaking	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 came	expl
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	also	also	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 came	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 fallen	punct
16	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fallen	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 God	case
19	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fire	nmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fallen	aux
21	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 heaven	case
23	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fallen	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 burned	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 burned	cc
26	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 burned	aux
27	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 fallen	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 burned	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sheep	det
30	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 burned	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 servants	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 servants	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 servants	det
34	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sheep	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 consumed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 consumed	cc
37	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 fallen	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 consumed	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 escaped	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 escaped	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 escaped	nsubj
42	only	only	ADV	_	41 I	advmod
43	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 escaped	aux
44	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 fallen	conj
45	alone	alone	ADV	_	44 escaped	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 tell	mark
47	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 escaped	advcl
48	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	47 tell	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 fallen	punct
50	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · progressive	messenger			yet		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	another		there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	another not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fall	present · passive	a fire of God		heaven			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial_Location
5	burn up	present · perfect	a fire of God not said here	the sheep and the servants				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
6	consume	participle	a fire of God not said here	sheep				vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset
7	escape	present · passive	I				alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	thee				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
9	fire			God				nom fire «event transitive»: of=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

ע֣וֹד ׀ זֶ֣ה מְדַבֵּ֗ר וְזֶה֮ בָּ֣א וַיֹּאמַר֒ אֵ֣שׁ אֱלֹהִ֗ים נָֽפְלָה֙ מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וַתִּבְעַ֥ר בַּצֹּ֛אן וּבַנְּעָרִ֖ים וַתֹּאכְלֵ֑ם וָאִמָּ֨לְטָ֧ה רַק־אֲנִ֛י לְבַדִּ֖י לְהַגִּ֥יד לָֽךְ׃

Job 1:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:16 of Mova's parse database.

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