Jonah 3:6 · JPS 1917
And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Who acts: tidings, Nineveh · What happens: reach, arise, lay, cover, sit · To what, where: king, throne, robe, Nineveh, ashes
This is Jonah 3:6 · 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 (tidings, Nineveh), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 reached | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tidings | det |
| 3 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Nineveh | case |
| 8 | Nineveh | Nineveh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arose | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 arose | nsubj |
| 12 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 throne | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 throne | nmod:poss |
| 15 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arose | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 laid | cc |
| 18 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arose | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 robe | nmod:poss |
| 20 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laid | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laid | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 covered | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 covered | cc |
| 25 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arose | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 covered | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 sackcloth | case |
| 28 | sackcloth | sackcloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 covered | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sat | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sat | cc |
| 31 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arose | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 ashes | case |
| 33 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sat | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the tidings | the king of Nineveh | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | Nineveh | Nineveh's throne | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | Nineveh not said here | Nineveh's robe | from Nineveh | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent robe=Result from he=Material | |||
| 4 | cover | past | Nineveh not said here | Nineveh | with sackcloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with sackcloth=Theme | |||
| 5 | sit | past | Nineveh not said here | ashes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ash=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
וַיִּגַּ֤ע הַדָּבָר֙ אֶל־מֶ֣לֶךנִֽינְוֵ֔ה וַיָּ֙קָם֙ מִכִּסְא֔וֹ וַיַּעֲבֵ֥ר אַדַּרְתּ֖וֹ מֵֽעָלָ֑יו וַיְכַ֣ס שַׂ֔ק וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב עַל־הָאֵֽפֶר׃
Jonah 3:6: 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:35 of Mova's parse database.
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