Nahum 3:14 · JPS 1917

Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, lay hold of the brickmould.

Who acts: you · What happens: draw, strengthen, go, tread, lay, hold · To what, where: water, thee, fortresses, clay, mortar, hold

This is Nahum 3:14 · 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 (you), 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	Draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Draw	iobj
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Draw	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 siege	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 siege	det
6	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Draw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 strengthen	punct
8	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Draw	conj
9	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 fortresses	nmod:poss
10	fortresses	fortress	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strengthen	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Draw	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 clay	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 clay	det
15	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tread	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tread	cc
18	tread	tread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 go	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mortar	det
20	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tread	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
22	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 go	conj
23	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 brickmould	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 brickmould	det
26	brickmould	brickmould	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Draw	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	imperative	you not said here	water	thee		for the siege	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary water=Result
2	strengthen	infinitive	you not said here	thy fortresses				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fortress=Patient
3	go	infinitive	you not said here			the clay		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into clay=Initial_Location
4	tread	infinitive	you not said here	the mortar				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mortar=Theme
5	lay	infinitive	you not said here	hold of the brickmould				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
6	hold			the brickmould				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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

מֵ֤י מָצוֹר֙ שַֽׁאֲבִי־לָ֔ךְ חַזְּקִ֖י מִבְצָרָ֑יִךְ בֹּ֧אִי בַטִּ֛יט וְרִמְסִ֥י בַחֹ֖מֶר הַחֲזִ֥יקִי מַלְבֵּֽן׃

Nahum 3:14: 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:47 of Mova's parse database.

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