Zephaniah 2:8 · JPS 1917

I have heard the taunt of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have taunted My people, and spoken boastfully concerning their border.

Who acts: I, taunt · What happens: hear, taunt, speak · To what, where: taunt, people, Moab · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Zephaniah 2:8 · 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 (I, taunt), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 taunt	det
5	taunt	taunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Moab	case
7	Moab	Moab	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 taunt	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 revilings	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 revilings	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 revilings	det
11	revilings	reviling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taunt	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 children	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 revilings	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Ammon	case
16	Ammon	Ammon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 children	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taunted	punct
18	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 taunted	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 taunted	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 taunted	aux
21	taunted	taunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 revilings	acl:relcl
22	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 people	nmod:poss
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 taunted	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spoken	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spoken	cc
26	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 taunted	conj
27	boastfully	boastfully	ADV	_	26 spoken	advmod
28	concerning	concern	ADP	_	30 border	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 border	nmod:poss
30	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spoken	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	I	the taunt of Moab and the revilings of the children of Ammon		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer taunt=Stimulus
2	taunt	present · perfect	taunt	My people	wherewith property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	speak speech: other	participle	taunt not said here		concern taunt's border; boastfully property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	taunt			Moab		nom taunt «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

שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ חֶרְפַּ֣ת מוֹאָ֔ב וְגִדּוּפֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י עַמּ֑וֹן אֲשֶׁ֤ר חֵֽרְפוּ֙ אֶת־עַמִּ֔י וַיַּגְדִּ֖ילוּ עַל־גְּבוּלָֽם׃

Zephaniah 2:8: 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:ZEP:26 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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