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title: Nahum 2:2 (JPS 1917) — A maul is come up before thy face; guard the defences, watch the way… · tree and pragmatics
description: A maul is come up before thy face; guard the defences, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily! — Nahum 2:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nahum 2:2 · JPS 1917

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A maul is come up before thy face; guard the defences, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily! —

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**What happens:** come up, guard, watch, make, fortify · **To what, where:** maul, defences, way, loins, power

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This is Nahum 2:2 · 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: 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:20
# text = A maul is come up before thy face; guard the defences, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily! —
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maul	maul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	guard	guard	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	defences	defence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	loins	loin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	fortify	fortify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	mightily	mightily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other, act=warn, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | present · passive |  | a maul |  |  | before thy face |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **guard** | infinitive |  | the defences |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defence=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **watch** | infinitive |  | the way |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive |  | thy loins |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset loin=Product |
| 5 | **fortify** | infinitive |  | thy power |  |  |  | mightily *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme power=Recipient |

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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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עָלָ֥ה מֵפִ֛יץ עַל־פָּנַ֖יִךְ נָצ֣וֹר מְצֻרָ֑ה צַפֵּה־דֶ֙רֶךְ֙ חַזֵּ֣ק מָתְנַ֔יִם אַמֵּ֥ץ כֹּ֖חַ מְאֹֽד׃

[Nahum 2:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.2/)

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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:20` 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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