Jonah 1:11 · JPS 1917

Then said they unto him: 'What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?' for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

Who acts: lots, we, sea · What happens: say, do, be, grow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Jonah 1:11 · 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 (lots, we, sea), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
12	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 thee	case
13	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 do	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 calm	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 calm	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 calm	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 calm	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 calm	cop
20	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 do	advcl
21	unto	unto	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 calm	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 grew	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sea	det
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	advcl
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 tempestuous	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 more	cc
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 more	conj
32	tempestuous	tempestuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grew	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	lots = lot	then	unto man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	shall	we		unto thee	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	is	may	the sea		unto us; calm property	tree rules
4	grow	past	the sea		tempestuous property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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

וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ אֵלָיו֙ מַה־נַּ֣עֲשֶׂה לָּ֔ךְ וְיִשְׁתֹּ֥ק הַיָּ֖ם מֵֽעָלֵ֑ינוּ כִּ֥י הַיָּ֖ם הוֹלֵ֥ךְ וְסֹעֵֽר׃

Jonah 1:11: 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:JON:11 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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