--- title: Nahum 2:1 (JPS 1917) — Keep thy feasts, O Judah, perform thy vows; for the wicked one shall… · tree and pragmatics description: Keep thy feasts, O Judah, perform thy vows; for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. Who acts: you, wicked one, thy. 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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 (you, wicked one, 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:19 # text = Keep thy feasts, O Judah, perform thy vows; for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 feasts feast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 O o INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 6 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 perform perform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 9 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 vows vow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 no no ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 19 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 utterly utterly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy feasts | | | | Judah *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | | 2 | **perform** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy vows | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | shall | the wicked one | | | thee | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through thou=Location | | 4 | **cut off** | present · passive | | Judah | | | | utterly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **vow** | | thy | | | | | | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} הִנֵּ֨ה עַל־הֶהָרִ֜ים רַגְלֵ֤י מְבַשֵּׂר֙ מַשְׁמִ֣יעַ שָׁל֔וֹם חָגִּ֧י יְהוּדָ֛ה חַגַּ֖יִךְ שַׁלְּמִ֣י נְדָרָ֑יִךְ כִּי֩ לֹ֨א יוֹסִ֥יף ע֛וֹד לַֽעֲבָר־בָּ֥ךְ בְּלִיַּ֖עַל כֻּלֹּ֥ה נִכְרָֽת׃ [Nahum 2:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.1/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that announceth peace!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.18/) 2. **Keep thy feasts, O Judah, perform thy vows; for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NAM:19` 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: [Nahum 2:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.18/) - next →: [Nahum 2:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.20/) - ↑ back to [Nahum 2:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.1/)