Jonah 4:8 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said: 'It is better for me to die than to live.'

Who acts: gourd, sun, God, me · What happens: come, pass, arise, prepare, beat, faint · To what, where: vehement east wind, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Jonah 4:8 · 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 (gourd, sun, God, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 arose	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 arose	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arose	nsubj
10	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prepared	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 prepared	mark
13	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 prepared	nsubj
14	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wind	det
16	vehement	vehement	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wind	amod
17	east	east	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wind	amod
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prepared	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 beat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 beat	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beat	nsubj
23	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 head	det
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beat	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Jonah	case
28	Jonah	Jonah	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 head	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fainted	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 fainted	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fainted	nsubj
32	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 beat	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 requested	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 requested	cc
35	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fainted	conj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 himself	case
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 requested	obl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 die	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 die	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 die	aux
41	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 requested	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 said	cc
44	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fainted	conj
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	49 better	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	49 better	punct
47	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 better	expl
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 better	cop
49	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 said	ccomp
50	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 die	mark
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 die	nsubj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 die	mark
53	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 better	csubj
54	than	than	SCONJ	_	56 live	mark
55	to	to	PART	_	56 live	mark
56	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 better	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
58	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	gourd				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	gourd not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	arise	past	the sun				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	prepare	past	God	a vehement east wind			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Patient
5	beat	past	the sun		the head of Jonah		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon head=Location
6	faint	past	God				vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	request	past	God not said here			for God	vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	die	might	God				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	say speech: assert	past	God not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	is	present				good property	tree rules
11	die	to-infinitive	me				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
12	live	to-infinitive					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

וַיְהִ֣י ׀ כִּזְרֹ֣חַ הַשֶּׁ֗מֶשׁ וַיְמַ֨ן אֱלֹהִ֜ים ר֤וּחַ קָדִים֙ חֲרִישִׁ֔ית וַתַּ֥ךְ הַשֶּׁ֛מֶשׁ עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ יוֹנָ֖ה וַיִּתְעַלָּ֑ף וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל אֶת־נַפְשׁוֹ֙ לָמ֔וּת וַיֹּ֕אמֶר ט֥וֹב מוֹתִ֖י מֵחַיָּֽי׃

Jonah 4:8: 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:49 of Mova's parse database.

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