Obadiah 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
Who acts: grape gatherers, gatherers · What happens: come, not leave, gleaning · To what, where: thee, gleaning grapes
This is Obadiah 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (grape gatherers, gatherers), 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 | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | grape | grape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gatherers | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grape | punct |
| 4 | gatherers | gatherer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 thee | case |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | aux |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 leave | advmod |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 grapes | det |
| 14 | gleaning | gleaning | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 grapes | amod |
| 15 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 leave | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | grape gatherers | thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not leave | would | gatherers = gatherer | some gleaning grapes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gleaning | gerund | 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
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:6 of Mova's parse database.
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