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title: Jonah 3:3 (JPS 1917) — Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey. · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey. Who acts: Nineveh, three days. Jonah 3:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jonah 3:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey.

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**Who acts:** Nineveh, three days · **What happens:** be, journey · **To what, where:** great city

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This is Jonah 3:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Nineveh, three days), 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:32
# text = Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	Nineveh	Nineveh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	exceeding	exceeding	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nineveh | a great city |  |  | now | of three days's journey | tree rules |
| 2 | **journey** |  | three days |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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וַיָּ֣קָם יוֹנָ֗ה וַיֵּ֛לֶךְ אֶל־נִֽינְוֶ֖הכִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה וְנִֽינְוֵ֗ה הָיְתָ֤ה עִיר־גְּדוֹלָה֙ לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים מַהֲלַ֖ךְ שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִֽים׃

[Jonah 3:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.3.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.31/)
2. **Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey.**

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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:32` 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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