Obadiah 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night — how art thou cut off! — would they not steal till they had enough?

Who acts: thieves, robbers · What happens: come, cut off, not steal, have · To what, where: thee, thou, enough

This is Obadiah 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (thieves, robbers), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 steal	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 thee	case
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 robbers	mark
8	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 robbers	nmod
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 cut	advmod
13	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	aux:pass
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 cut	nsubj:pass
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 steal	parataxis
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 cut	compound:prt
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 steal	aux
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 steal	nsubj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 steal	advmod
22	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 steal	advcl
26	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 had	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 steal	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	past	thieves		thee	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial_Location
2	cut off	present · passive		thou		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3	not steal	would	robbers = robber			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	robbers = robber	enough		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=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

אִם־גַּנָּבִ֤ים בָּאֽוּ־לְךָ֙ אִם־שׁ֣וֹדְדֵי לַ֔יְלָה אֵ֣יךְ נִדְמֵ֔יתָה הֲל֥וֹא יִגְנְב֖וּ דַּיָּ֑ם אִם־בֹּֽצְרִים֙ בָּ֣אוּ לָ֔ךְ הֲל֖וֹא יַשְׁאִ֥ירוּ עֹלֵלֽוֹת׃

Obadiah 1:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night — how art thou cut off! — would they not steal till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:OBA:5 of Mova's parse database.

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