Jonah 4:3 · JPS 1917
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.'
Who acts: you, I, me · What happens: take, beseech, be, die, live · To what, where: life, Thee
This is Jonah 4:3 · 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 (you, I, me), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 4 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 LORD | discourse |
| 5 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beseech | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 beseech | nsubj |
| 10 | beseech | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | parataxis |
| 11 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 beseech | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beseech | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 better | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 better | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 better | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 better | cop |
| 21 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 take | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 die | mark |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 die | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 die | mark |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 better | csubj |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 28 live | mark |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 live | mark |
| 28 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 better | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | my life | now | from me; LORD vocative; therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent life=Theme from i=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | beseech | present | I | Thee | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | me | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «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
וְעַתָּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה קַח־נָ֥א אֶת־נַפְשִׁ֖י מִמֶּ֑נִּי כִּ֛י ט֥וֹב מוֹתִ֖י מֵחַיָּֽי׃ס
Jonah 4:3: 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:JON:43 of Mova's parse database.
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