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title: Joel 1:20 (JPS 1917) — Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto Thee; for the water brooks ar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto Thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. Who acts: beasts, fire. Joel 1:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Joel 1:20 · JPS 1917

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Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto Thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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**Who acts:** beasts, fire · **What happens:** pant, dry up, devour · **To what, where:** water brooks, pastures

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This is Joel 1:20 · 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 (beasts, fire), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JOL:20
# text = Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto Thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
1	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	pant	pant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	brooks	brook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pastures	pasture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pant** | present | the beasts  the field |  |  |  |  | unto Thee | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dry up** | present · passive |  | the water brooks |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **devour** | present · perfect | the fire | the pastures of the wilderness |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=Patient |

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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 {#hebrew}

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גַּם־בַּהֲמ֥וֹת שָׂדֶ֖ה תַּעֲר֣וֹג אֵלֶ֑יךָ כִּ֤י יָֽבְשׁוּ֙ אֲפִ֣יקֵי מָ֔יִם וְאֵ֕שׁ אָכְלָ֖ה נְא֥וֹת הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃פ

[Joel 1:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.20/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOL:20` 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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