Nahum 2:8 · JPS 1917
And the queen is uncovered, she is carried away, and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
Who acts: handmaids · What happens: uncover, carry away, moan, tabor · To what, where: queen
This is Nahum 2:8 · 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 (handmaids), 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 | _ | 5 uncovered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uncovered | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 uncovered | aux:pass |
| 5 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | aux:pass |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 uncovered | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 moan | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 moan | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 handmaids | nmod:poss |
| 14 | handmaids | handmaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 moan | nsubj |
| 15 | moan | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 uncovered | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 voice | mark |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 moan | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 doves | case |
| 21 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 voice | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tabering | punct |
| 23 | tabering | tabor | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 moan | advcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 breasts | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 breasts | nmod:poss |
| 26 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 tabering | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 uncovered | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncover | present · passive | the queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry away | present · passive | queen | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | moan | present | queen's handmaids | with the voice of doves | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tabor | gerund | queen's handmaids not said here | upon handmaids's breasts | 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
וְהֻצַּ֖ב גֻּלְּתָ֣ה הֹֽעֲלָ֑תָה וְאַמְהֹתֶ֗יהָ מְנַֽהֲגוֹת֙ כְּק֣וֹל יוֹנִ֔ים מְתֹפְפֹ֖ת עַל־לִבְבֵהֶֽן׃
Nahum 2:8: 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:NAM:26 of Mova's parse database.
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