Deuteronomy 28:49 · JPS 1917
The LORD will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the vulture swoopeth down; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Who acts: LORD, vulture, thou · What happens: bring, swoop down, not understand · To what, where: nation, end, tongue
This is Deuteronomy 28:49 · 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 (LORD, vulture, thou), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 LORD | det |
| 2 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 nation | det |
| 6 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 bring | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 far | case |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 bring | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 swoopeth | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 swoopeth | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 vulture | det |
| 21 | vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swoopeth | nsubj |
| 22 | swoopeth | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | advcl |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 swoopeth | compound:prt |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 nation | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 nation | det |
| 26 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nation | appos |
| 27 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 28 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 28 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 understand | obj |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 understand | nsubj |
| 30 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 32 understand | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 understand | advmod |
| 32 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 nation | acl:relcl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | the LORD | a nation | from the end of the earth | against thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nation=Theme against thou=Destination | ||
| 2 | swoop down | present | the vulture | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not understand | shall | thou | tongue | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tongue=Stimulus |
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
יִשָּׂ֣א יְהוָה֩ עָלֶ֨יךָ גּ֤וֹי מֵרָחוֹק֙ מִקְצֵ֣ה הָאָ֔רֶץ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר יִדְאֶ֖ה הַנָּ֑שֶׁר גּ֕וֹי אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־תִשְׁמַ֖ע לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃
Deuteronomy 28:49: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DEU:786 of Mova's parse database.
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