--- title: Jonah 3:10 (JPS 1917) — And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and G… · tree and pragmatics description: And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which He said He would do unto them; and He did it not. Who acts: God, man. 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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 (God, man), 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:39 # text = And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which He said He would do unto them; and He did it not. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 works work NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 repented repent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 obj _ _ 23 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 28 unto unto ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **see** | past | God | man's works | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | past | man | | | man's evil way | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from way=Trajectory | | 3 | **repent** | past | God | | | | | of the evil | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | God | the evil | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | would | God | | | | | unto man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **do** | past | God | evil | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **work** | | man | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַיַּ֤רְא הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ אֶֽת־מַ֣עֲשֵׂיהֶ֔ם כִּי־שָׁ֖בוּ מִדַּרְכָּ֣ם הָרָעָ֑ה וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים עַל־הָרָעָ֛ה אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר לַעֲשׂוֹת־לָהֶ֖ם וְלֹ֥א עָשָֽׂה׃ [Jonah 3:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.3.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JON:39` 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. - ← previous: [Jonah 3:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.38/) - next →: [Jonah 4:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.40/) - ↑ back to [Jonah 3:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.3.10/)