--- title: Jonah 4:11 (JPS 1917) — and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are… · tree and pragmatics description: and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?' Who acts: I, persons. 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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 (I, persons), 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:52 # text = and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?' 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Nineveh Nineveh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 sixscore sixscore NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 compound _ _ 19 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ _ 20 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 acl:relcl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 discern discern VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 between between ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 also also ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 cattle cattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=q, act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** | should | I | pity | | Nineveh | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | | persons and much cattle | | | | wherein *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **discern** | can | persons and much cattle | | | | | between persons's right hand and hand's left hand | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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} וַֽאֲנִי֙ לֹ֣א אָח֔וּס עַל־נִינְוֵ֖ה הָעִ֣יר הַגְּדוֹלָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֶשׁ־בָּ֡הּ הַרְבֵּה֩ מִֽשְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵ֨ה רִבּ֜וֹ אָדָ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־יָדַע֙ בֵּין־יְמִינ֣וֹ לִשְׂמֹאל֔וֹ וּבְהֵמָ֖ה רַבָּֽה׃ [Jonah 4:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JON:52` 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 4:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.51/) - next →: [Micah 1:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.0/) - ↑ back to [Jonah 4:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.11/)