Jonah 1:6 · JPS 1917
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him: 'What meanest thou that thou sleepest? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.'
Who acts: shipmaster, thou, God, we · What happens: come, say, mean, sleep, arise, call · To what, where: Jonah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jonah 1:6 · 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 (shipmaster, thou, God, we), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shipmaster | det |
| 3 | shipmaster | shipmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 meanest | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 meanest | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 meanest | obj |
| 15 | meanest | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 meanest | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 sleepest | mark |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 sleepest | nsubj |
| 19 | sleepest | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 meanest | advcl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 meanest | punct |
| 21 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 meanest | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 call | punct |
| 23 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 arise | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 God | case |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 God | nmod:poss |
| 26 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 call | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 so | punct |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 so | mark |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 call | advcl |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 so | cop |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 think | mark |
| 32 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 think | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 think | aux |
| 34 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 so | csubj |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 us | case |
| 36 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 think | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 perish | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 perish | mark |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 perish | nsubj |
| 40 | perish | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 think | advcl |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 perish | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 meanest | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 meanest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- other
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the shipmaster | Jonah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the shipmaster not said here | unto Jonah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | thou | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sleep | present | thou | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | arise | infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | call | infinitive | upon thy God | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | so property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | think speech: other | future | God | upon us | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | not perish | present | we | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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
וַיִּקְרַ֤ב אֵלָיו֙ רַ֣ב הַחֹבֵ֔ל וַיֹּ֥אמֶר ל֖וֹ מַה־לְּךָ֣ נִרְדָּ֑ם ק֚וּם קְרָ֣א אֶל־אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אוּלַ֞י יִתְעַשֵּׁ֧ת הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים לָ֖נוּ וְלֹ֥א נֹאבֵֽד׃
Jonah 1:6: 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:6 of Mova's parse database.
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