Zephaniah 3:3 · JPS 1917

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the desert, they leave not a bone for the morrow.

Who acts: princes, judges · What happens: roar, be, not leave · To what, where: roaring lions, wolves, bone

This is Zephaniah 3:3 · 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 (princes, judges), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 princes	nmod:poss
2	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lions	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 midst	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 midst	det
5	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 princes	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 midst	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lions	cop
9	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 lions	amod
10	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 wolves	punct
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 judges	nmod:poss
13	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wolves	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wolves	cop
15	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lions	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 desert	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 desert	det
18	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wolves	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leave	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leave	nsubj
21	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wolves	parataxis
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 leave	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bone	det
24	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 morrow	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 morrow	det
27	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lions	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	roar	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Her princes in the midst of her	roaring lions		tree rules
3	is a	present	her judges	wolves	of the desert	tree rules
4	not leave	present	judges = judge	a bone	for the morrow	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bone=Theme for morrow=Recipient

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

שָׂרֶ֣יהָ בְקִרְבָּ֔הּ אֲרָי֖וֹת שֹֽׁאֲגִ֑ים שֹׁפְטֶ֙יהָ֙ זְאֵ֣בֵי עֶ֔רֶב לֹ֥א גָרְמ֖וּ לַבֹּֽקֶר׃

Zephaniah 3:3: 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:37 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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