Joel 2:17 · JPS 1917

Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say: 'Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not Thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should make them a byword: wherefore should they say among the peoples: Where is their God?'

Who acts: priests, nations, people · What happens: let, weep, say, spare, not give, reproach · To what, where: people, heritage, God · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joel 2:17 · 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 (priests, nations, people), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priests	det
3	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Let	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ministers	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ministers	det
6	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 priests	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 LORD	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 LORD	det
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ministers	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weep	punct
11	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
12	between	between	ADP	_	14 porch	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 porch	det
14	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weep	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 altar	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 altar	det
17	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 porch	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 let	cc
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 let	nsubj
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Spare	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 Spare	punct
25	Spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	ccomp
26	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 people	nmod:poss
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Spare	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 LORD	punct
29	O	o	INTJ	_	30 LORD	discourse
30	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Spare	vocative
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 give	cc
33	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 Spare	conj
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 give	advmod
35	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 heritage	nmod:poss
36	heritage	heritage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 reproach	mark
38	reproach	reproach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 give	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 make	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 make	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 nations	det
42	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 make	nsubj
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 make	aux
44	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 give	advcl
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 make	obj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 byword	det
47	byword	byword	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 make	xcomp
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 say	punct
49	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	52 say	advmod
50	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 say	aux
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 say	nsubj
52	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	parataxis
53	among	among	ADP	_	55 peoples	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 peoples	det
55	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 say	obl
56	:	:	PUNCT	_	60 God	punct
57	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	60 God	advmod
58	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 God	cop
59	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 God	nmod:poss
60	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 say	ccomp
61	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
62	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	the priests			tree rules
2	weep	infinitive	the priests not said here		between the porch and the altar	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let	infinitive	priests = priest			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	priests = priest not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	spare	infinitive		thy people	LORD vocative	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent people=Asset
6	not give	infinitive		Thy heritage		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heritage=Theme
7	reproach	to-infinitive				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	make	should	the nations	people		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
9	say speech: assert	should	people		among the peoples; wherefore property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	is a	present		people's God		tree rules

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

בֵּ֤ין הָאוּלָם֙ וְלַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ יִבְכּוּ֙ הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים מְשָׁרְתֵ֖י יְהוָ֑ה וְֽיֹאמְר֞וּ ח֧וּסָה יְהוָ֣ה עַל־עַמֶּ֗ךָ וְאַל־תִּתֵּ֨ן נַחֲלָתְךָ֤ לְחֶרְפָּה֙ לִמְשָׁל־בָּ֣ם גּוֹיִ֔ם לָ֚מָּה יֹאמְר֣וּ בָֽעַמִּ֔ים אַיֵּ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃

Joel 2:17: 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:37 of Mova's parse database.

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