Zephaniah 3:4 · JPS 1917

Her prophets are wanton and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned that which is holy, they have done violence to the law.

Who acts: prophets, priests · What happens: be, profane, do · To what, where: that, violence

This is Zephaniah 3:4 · 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 (prophets, priests), 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 prophets	nmod:poss
2	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanton	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wanton	cop
4	wanton	wanton	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 persons	cc
6	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 persons	amod
7	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanton	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 profaned	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 priests	nmod:poss
10	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 profaned	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 profaned	aux
12	profaned	profane	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wanton	parataxis
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 profaned	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 holy	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 holy	cop
16	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 that	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 done	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wanton	parataxis
21	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 done	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 law	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 law	det
24	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 done	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanton	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her prophets		wanton property	tree rules
2	profane	present · perfect	her priests	that		tree rules
3	is	present			holy property	tree rules
4	do	present · perfect	priests = priest	violence	to the law	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent violence=Eventuality

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

נְבִיאֶ֙יהָ֙ פֹּֽחֲזִ֔ים אַנְשֵׁ֖י בֹּֽגְד֑וֹת כֹּהֲנֶ֙יהָ֙ חִלְּלוּ־קֹ֔דֶשׁ חָמְס֖וּ תּוֹרָֽה׃

Zephaniah 3:4: 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:38 of Mova's parse database.

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