Nahum 3:8 · JPS 1917
Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and of the sea her wall?
Who acts: thou, No amon, rampart · What happens: be, have · To what, where: waters, sea
This is Nahum 3:8 · 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 (thou, No amon, rampart), 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 | Art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 better | nsubj |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 amon | case |
| 5 | No | no | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 amon | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 No | punct |
| 7 | amon | No-amon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 better | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 situate | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 situate | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 situate | cop |
| 11 | situate | situate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 amon | acl:relcl |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 rivers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rivers | det |
| 14 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 situate | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 situate | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waters | det |
| 19 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 had | advmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 sea | punct |
| 24 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 25 rampart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sea | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sea | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amon | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sea | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sea | cc |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sea | det |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sea | conj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wall | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sea | conj |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | thou | than No amon; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | No amon | among the rivers; situate property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the waters | about amon = no-amon; round property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the sea and the sea and amon's wall's rampart | the sea and the sea and amon's wall | 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
הֲתֵֽיטְבִי֙ מִנֹּ֣א אָמ֔וֹן הַיֹּֽשְׁבָה֙ בַּיְאֹרִ֔ים מַ֖יִם סָבִ֣יב לָ֑הּ אֲשֶׁר־חֵ֣יל יָ֔ם מִיָּ֖ם חוֹמָתָֽהּ׃
Nahum 3:8: 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:41 of Mova's parse database.
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