--- title: Jonah 4:3 — Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.' Who acts: you, I, me. Jonah 4:3 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jonah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON/4/) / 4:3 # Jonah 4:3 יוֹנָה **Who acts:** you, I, me · **What happens:** take, beseech, be, die, live · **To what, where:** life, Thee This is Jonah 4:3 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — you, I, me — and what happens in the verse to life, Thee, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 4 chapters of Jonah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וְעַתָּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה קַח־נָ֥א אֶת־נַפְשִׁ֖י מִמֶּ֑נִּי כִּ֛י ט֥וֹב מוֹתִ֖י מֵחַיָּֽי׃ס [Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.43/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:JON:39 # text = וְעַתָּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה קַח־נָ֥א אֶת־נַפְשִׁ֖י מִמֶּ֑נִּי כִּ֛י ט֥וֹב מוֹתִ֖י מֵחַיָּֽי׃ס # verse = JON.4.3 1-2 וְעַתָּ֣ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JON_4:3!1|MId=o320040030011|Strong=2050b 2 עַתָּ֣ה עַתָּה ADV _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=therefore|Ref=JON_4:3!1|MId=o320040030012|Strong=6258 3 יְהוָ֔ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 4 dislocated _ Gloss=O.Yahweh|Ref=JON_4:3!2|MId=o320040030021|Strong=3068 4 קַח־ לָקַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 parataxis _ Gloss=take|Ref=JON_4:3!3|MId=o320040030031|Strong=3947|Frame=A0:320040030021;A1:320040030061;|Type=imperative|SpaceAfter=No 5 נָ֥א נָא INTJ _ _ 4 discourse _ Gloss=please|Ref=JON_4:3!4|MId=o320040030041|Strong=4994|Type=exhortation 6 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JON_4:3!5|MId=o320040030051|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 7-8 נַפְשִׁ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 נַפְשׁ נֶפֶשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 4 obj _ Gloss=life|Ref=JON_4:3!6|MId=o320040030061|Strong=5315 8 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=JON_4:3!6|MId=o320040030062|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 9-10 מִמֶּ֑נִּי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 מִמּ מִן ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=JON_4:3!7|MId=o320040030071|Strong=4480 10 ֶ֑נִּי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=JON_4:3!7|MId=o320040030072|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 11 כִּ֛י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 12 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=JON_4:3!8|MId=o320040030081|Strong=3588 12 ט֥וֹב טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 advcl _ Gloss=[is].good|Ref=JON_4:3!9|MId=o320040030091|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 13-14 מוֹתִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 מוֹת מָוֶת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Gloss=death|Ref=JON_4:3!10|MId=o320040030101|Strong=4194 14 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=JON_4:3!10|MId=o320040030102|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 15-17 מֵחַיָּֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=more|Ref=JON_4:3!11|MId=o320040030111|Strong=4480 16 חַיּ חַיִּים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 obl _ Gloss=than|Ref=JON_4:3!11|MId=o320040030112|Strong=2416 17 ָֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my.life|Ref=JON_4:3!11|MId=o320040030113|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=JON_4:3!11|SpaceAfter=No 19 ס ס PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=JON_4:3!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | קַח־ *take* | imperative · qal | יְהוָה *O Yahweh* | נַפְשׁ *life* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos} וּכְעַן יְיָ סַב כְּעַן יַת נַפְשִׁי מִנִי אֲרֵי טַב דַאֲמוּת מִדְאֵיחֵי: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.43/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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