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title: Nahum 1:10 (JPS 1917) — For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to… · tree and pragmatics
description: For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. Who acts: hills. Nahum 1:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nahum 1:10 · JPS 1917

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For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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**Who acts:** hills · **What happens:** tangle, be, accord, devour · **To what, where:** hills

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This is Nahum 1:10 · 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 (hills), 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:13
# text = For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	drunken	drunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	stubble	stubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | hills *= hill* |  |  |  |  | like tangled thorns | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | hills *= hill* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord hills's drink; drunken *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **devour** | shall · passive |  | hills *= hill* |  |  |  | as stubble | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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כִּ֚י עַד־סִירִ֣ים סְבֻכִ֔ים וּכְסָבְאָ֖ם סְבוּאִ֑ים אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ כְּקַ֥שׁ יָבֵ֖שׁ מָלֵֽא׃

[Nahum 1:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.10/)

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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:13` 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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