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title: Nahum 1:13 (JPS 1917) — And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bond… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. Who acts: I, thy. Nahum 1:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nahum 1:13 · JPS 1917

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And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

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**Who acts:** I, thy · **What happens:** break, burst, bond · **To what, where:** yoke, bonds

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This is Nahum 1:13 · 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 (I, thy), 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:16
# text = And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bonds	bond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sunder	sunder	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **break** | future | I | LORD's yoke |  |  | now | from thee | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yoke=Patient from thou=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **burst** | future | I *not said here* | thy bonds |  |  |  | sunder *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bond=Theme |
| 3 | **bond** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְעַתָּ֕ה אֶשְׁבֹּ֥ר מֹטֵ֖הוּ מֵֽעָלָ֑יִךְ וּמוֹסְרֹתַ֖יִךְ אֲנַתֵּֽק׃

[Nahum 1:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.13/)

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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:16` 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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