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title: Jonah 2:8 (JPS 1917) — When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer… · tree and pragmatics
description: When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came in unto Thee, into Thy holy temple. Who acts: soul, I, prayer, my. Jonah 2:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jonah 2:8 · JPS 1917

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When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came in unto Thee, into Thy holy temple.

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**Who acts:** soul, I, prayer, my · **What happens:** faint, remember, come in, pray · **To what, where:** LORD, holy temple

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This is Jonah 2:8 · 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 (soul, I, prayer, my), 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:JON:24
# text = When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came in unto Thee, into Thy holy temple.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fainted	faint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **faint** | past | my soul |  |  |  |  | within me | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **remember** | past | I | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 3 | **come in** | past | my prayer |  |  | Thy holy temple |  | unto Thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into temple=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **pray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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בְּהִתְעַטֵּ֤ף עָלַי֙ נַפְשִׁ֔י אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה זָכָ֑רְתִּי וַתָּב֤וֹא אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ תְּפִלָּתִ֔י אֶל־הֵיכַ֖ל קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃

[Jonah 2:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.2.8/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JON:24` 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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