Jonah 1:8 · JPS 1917

Then said they unto him: 'Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us: what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?'

Who acts: lots, we, evil, thou · What happens: say, tell, pray, be, come · To what, where: us, thee, occupation, country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Jonah 1:8 · 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 (lots, we, evil, thou), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Tell	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Tell	punct
8	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Tell	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 pray	nsubj
12	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Tell	parataxis
13	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 pray	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 us	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 cause	case
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 cause	nmod:poss
17	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 us	obl
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 evil	det
19	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 us	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 us	cop
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 pray	advcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 occupation	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 occupation	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 occupation	cop
26	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 occupation	nmod:poss
27	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Tell	ccomp
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 occupation	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 comest	cc
30	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	31 comest	advmod
31	comest	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 comest	nsubj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 comest	punct
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 country	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 country	cop
36	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 country	nmod:poss
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	37 country	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 people	cc
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 people	case
41	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	42 people	det
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	ccomp
43	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 people	cop
44	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	42 people	nsubj
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	lots = lot			then	unto Jonah	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	pray	present	we	thee				tree rules
4	is	present	this evil				upon us; for cause	tree rules
5	is a	present		thine occupation				tree rules
6	come	present	thou				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	present		thy country				tree rules
8	is	present	thou				of what people	tree rules

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

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֔יו הַגִּידָה־נָּ֣א לָ֔נוּ בַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר לְמִי־הָרָעָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את לָ֑נוּ מַה־מְּלַאכְתְּךָ֙ וּמֵאַ֣יִן תָּב֔וֹא מָ֣ה אַרְצֶ֔ךָ וְאֵֽי־מִזֶּ֥ה עַ֖ם אָֽתָּה׃

Jonah 1:8: 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:8 of Mova's parse database.

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