Nahum 2:9 · JPS 1917

But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water; yet they flee away; 'Stand, stand'; but none looketh back.

Who acts: Nineveh, handmaids, none · What happens: be, flee away, stand, look back

This is Nahum 2:9 · 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 (Nineveh, handmaids, none), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 old	cc
2	Nineveh	Nineveh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 old	nsubj
3	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 old	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 old	cop
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 of	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 old	case
7	old	old	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 pool	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pool	det
10	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pool	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 flee	punct
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	16 flee	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 flee	nsubj
16	flee	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 old	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 flee	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 Stand	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 Stand	punct
20	Stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 flee	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stand	punct
22	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Stand	conj
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 Stand	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 looketh	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 looketh	cc
26	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	27 looketh	nsubj
27	looketh	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 old	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 looketh	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	Nineveh	of old; like a pool of water	tree rules
2	flee away	present	handmaids = handmaid	away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	infinitive			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	infinitive			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look back	present	none		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

וְנִינְוֵ֥ה כִבְרֵֽכַת־מַ֖יִם מִ֣ימֵי הִ֑יא וְהֵ֣מָּה נָסִ֔ים עִמְד֥וּ עֲמֹ֖דוּ וְאֵ֥ין מַפְנֶֽה׃

Nahum 2:9: 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:27 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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