1 Kings 8:37 · JPS 1917

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

Who acts: plague, pestilence, blasting, enemy · What happens: be, besiege · To what, where: land famine, people, land

This is 1 Kings 8:37 · 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 (plague, pestilence, blasting, enemy), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 be	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
3	be	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 be	advcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 famine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 famine	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 famine	compound
7	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 be	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 be	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 be	expl
11	be	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 be	advcl
12	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 be	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 be	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 be	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 be	expl
16	be	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 be	advcl
17	blasting	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 be	nsubj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 mildew	cc
19	mildew	mildew	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blasting	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 locust	punct
21	locust	locust	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blasting	conj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 caterpillar	cc
23	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 locust	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 besiege	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 besiege	mark
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 enemy	nmod:poss
27	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 besiege	nsubj
28	besiege	besiege	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	43 be	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 besiege	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 land	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 land	det
32	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 besiege	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 cities	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cities	nmod:poss
35	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 land	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 plague	punct
37	whatsoever	whatsoever	DET	PronType=Int	38 plague	det
38	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 be	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sickness	punct
40	whatsoever	whatsoever	DET	PronType=Int	41 sickness	det
41	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 plague	appos
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 be	expl
43	be	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 be	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	present	whatsoever plague not said here		the land famine; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in famine=Location
2	be a condition, not said to happen	present	pestilence		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	does a condition, not said to happen	present	blasting or mildew and locust or caterpillar		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	besiege a condition, not said to happen	past	people's enemy	people	the land of people's cities	tree rules
5	be	present	whatsoever plague		there	vn exist-47.1 «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

רָעָ֞ב כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֣ה בָאָ֗רֶץ דֶּ֣בֶר כִּֽי־יִ֠הְיֶה שִׁדָּפ֨וֹן יֵרָק֜וֹן אַרְבֶּ֤ה חָסִיל֙ כִּ֣י יִהְיֶ֔ה כִּ֧י יָֽצַר־ל֛וֹ אֹיְב֖וֹ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ שְׁעָרָ֑יו כָּל־נֶ֖גַע כָּֽל־מַחֲלָֽה׃

1 Kings 8:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:1KI:319 of Mova's parse database.

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