Joel 2:3 · JPS 1917

A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame blazeth; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing escapeth them.

Who acts: fire, flame, land, nothing · What happens: devour, blaze, be, escape · To what, where: people

This is Joel 2:3 · 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 (fire, flame, land, nothing), 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 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 devoureth	nsubj
3	devoureth	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 devoureth	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blazeth	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blazeth	cc
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blazeth	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 flame	det
11	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blazeth	nsubj
12	blazeth	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 devoureth	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 garden	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 garden	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 garden	cop
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 garden	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 garden	det
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 devoureth	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Eden	case
21	Eden	Eden	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 garden	nmod
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 garden	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wilderness	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wilderness	cc
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wilderness	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 wilderness	det
29	desolate	desolate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wilderness	amod
30	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 garden	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 yea	punct
32	yea	yea	INTJ	_	36 escapeth	discourse
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 escapeth	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 escapeth	cc
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 escapeth	nsubj
36	escapeth	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 devoureth	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 escapeth	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 devoureth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	devour	present	a fire		before people		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	blaze	present	a flame			behind people	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location
3	is	present	the land		before people	as the garden and a desolate wilderness; of Eden	tree rules
4	escape	present	nothing	people			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Initial_Location

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

לְפָנָיו֙ אָ֣כְלָה אֵ֔שׁ וְאַחֲרָ֖יו תְּלַהֵ֣ט לֶֽהָבָ֑ה כְּגַן־עֵ֨דֶן הָאָ֜רֶץ לְפָנָ֗יו וְאַֽחֲרָיו֙ מִדְבַּ֣ר שְׁמָמָ֔ה וְגַם־פְּלֵיטָ֖ה לֹא־הָ֥יְתָה לּֽוֹ׃

Joel 2:3: 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:JOL:23 of Mova's parse database.

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