Nahum 3:12 · JPS 1917

All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Who acts: fortresses · What happens: be, shake, fall · To what, where: fortresses, mouth

This is Nahum 3:12 · 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 (fortresses), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 fortresses	det:predet
2	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 fortresses	nmod:poss
3	fortresses	fortress	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trees	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 trees	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 trees	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 trees	case
7	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fig	punct
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	15 figs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 figs	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 ripe	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 first	punct
14	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 figs	amod
15	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trees	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 fall	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 shaken	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shaken	nsubj:pass
19	be	be	AUX	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 shaken	aux:pass
20	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 fall	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fall	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fall	nsubj
23	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 trees	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 mouth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mouth	det
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fall	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 eater	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 eater	det
29	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mouth	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 trees	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	shall	thy fortresses		like fig trees; with the ripe figs	tree rules
2	shake a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		fortresses = fortress		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
3	fall	present	fortresses = fortress		into the mouth of the eater result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into mouth=Result

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

כָּ֨ל־מִבְצָרַ֔יִךְ תְּאֵנִ֖ים עִם־בִּכּוּרִ֑ים אִם־יִנּ֕וֹעוּ וְנָפְל֖וּ עַל־פִּ֥י אוֹכֵֽל׃

Nahum 3:12: 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:45 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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