Jonah 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

And the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them.

Who acts: mariners, wares · What happens: be, cry, cast, lighten · To what, where: man, wares, sea, ship

This is Jonah 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (mariners, wares), 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.

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kept the draft

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The Hebrew of this verse

וַיִּֽירְא֣וּ הַמַּלָּחִ֗ים וַֽיִּזְעֲקוּ֮ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־אֱלֹהָיו֒ וַיָּטִ֨לוּ אֶת־הַכֵּלִ֜ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּֽאֳנִיָּה֙ אֶל־הַיָּ֔ם לְהָקֵ֖ל מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וְיוֹנָ֗ה יָרַד֙ אֶל־יַרְכְּתֵ֣י הַסְּפִינָ֔ה וַיִּשְׁכַּ֖ב וַיֵּרָדַֽם׃

Jonah 1:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

1. And the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them.
2. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

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