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title: Nahum 1:8 (JPS 1917) — But with an overrunning flood He will make a full end of the place t… · tree and pragmatics
description: But with an overrunning flood He will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue His enemies. Who acts: LORD, darkness. Nahum 1:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nahum 1:8 · JPS 1917

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But with an overrunning flood He will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.

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**Who acts:** LORD, darkness · **What happens:** overrun, make, pursue · **To what, where:** full end, enemies

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This is Nahum 1:8 · 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 (LORD, darkness), 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:NAM:10
# text = But with an overrunning flood He will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	overrunning	overrun	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	amod	_	_
5	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overrun** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | future | LORD | a full end of the place |  |  |  | with a overrunning flood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Product |
| 3 | **pursue** | shall | darkness | LORD's enemies |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme |

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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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וּבְשֶׁ֣טֶף עֹבֵ֔ר כָּלָ֖ה יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה מְקוֹמָ֑הּ וְאֹיְבָ֖יו יְרַדֶּף־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

[Nahum 1:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.8/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NAM:10` 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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