Zephaniah 2:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Seek ye the LORD, all ye humble of the earth, that have executed His ordinance; seek righteousness, seek humility.
Who acts: ye, anger · What happens: seek, execute, ordain · To what, where: LORD, ordinance, righteousness, humility
This is Zephaniah 2:3 · 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 (ye, anger), 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 | Seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Seek | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 LORD | det |
| 4 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Seek | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 humble | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 humble | det:predet |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 humble | det |
| 8 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 LORD | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 humble | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 executed | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 executed | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 executed | aux |
| 15 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 humble | acl:relcl |
| 16 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ordinance | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ordinance | ordinance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 executed | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 seek | punct |
| 19 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Seek | parataxis |
| 20 | righteousness | righteousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seek | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seek | punct |
| 22 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 seek | conj |
| 23 | humility | humility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seek | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seek | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | infinitive | ye | the LORD | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | ||||
| 2 | execute | present · perfect | anger's ordinance | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinance=Patient | |||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | righteousness | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteousness=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | humility | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent humility=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ordain | anger | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
בַּקְּשׁ֤וּ אֶת־יְהוָה֙ כָּל־עַנְוֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר מִשְׁפָּט֖וֹ פָּעָ֑לוּ בַּקְּשׁוּ־צֶ֙דֶק֙ בַּקְּשׁ֣וּ עֲנָוָ֔ה אוּלַי֙ תִּסָּ֣תְר֔וּ בְּי֖וֹם אַף־יְהוָֽה׃
Zephaniah 2:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Seek ye the LORD, all ye humble of the earth, that have executed His ordinance; seek righteousness, seek humility.
- It may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ZEP:20 of Mova's parse database.
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