--- title: Jonah 4:6 (JPS 1917) — So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd. · tree and pragmatics description: So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd. Who acts: Jonah. Jonah 4:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 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/jps/JON.47/) [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/) / [4:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.6/) / JPS 2 # Jonah 4:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd. **Who acts:** Jonah · **What happens:** be This is Jonah 4:6 · 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 (Jonah), 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:47 # text = So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 Jonah Jonah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 exceeding exceeding ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 gourd gourd NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Jonah | | | | | because the gourd; exceeding, glad *property* | tree rules | 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} וַיְמַ֣ן יְהוָֽה־אֱ֠לֹהִים קִיקָי֞וֹן וַיַּ֣עַל ׀ מֵעַ֣ל לְיוֹנָ֗ה לִֽהְי֥וֹת צֵל֙ עַל־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ לְהַצִּ֥יל ל֖וֹ מֵרָֽעָת֑וֹ וַיִּשְׂמַ֥ח יוֹנָ֛ה עַל־הַקִּֽיקָי֖וֹן שִׂמְחָ֥ה גְדוֹלָֽה׃ [Jonah 4:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.6/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.46/) 2. **So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JON:47` 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 4:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.46/) - next →: [Jonah 4:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.48/) - ↑ back to [Jonah 4:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.6/)