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title: Nahum 1:3 (JPS 1917) — The LORD is long-suffering, and great in power, and will by no means… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD is long-suffering, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty; the LORD, in the whirlwind and in the storm is His way, and the clouds are the dust of His feet. Who acts: LORD, clouds. Nahum 1:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nahum 1:3 · JPS 1917

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The LORD is long-suffering, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty; the LORD, in the whirlwind and in the storm is His way, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

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**Who acts:** LORD, clouds · **What happens:** be, clear · **To what, where:** power, guilty, way, dust

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This is Nahum 1:3 · 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, clouds), 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:3
# text = The LORD is long-suffering, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty; the LORD, in the whirlwind and in the storm is His way, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	suffering	suffering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	means	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	obl	_	_
18	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	guilty	guilty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
39	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | long, suffering *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the LORD *not said here* |  |  | power |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **clear** | future | the LORD *not said here* | the guilty |  |  |  | by no means | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent guilty=Source |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the LORD in the whirlwind and the storm | LORD's way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the clouds | the dust |  |  |  | of LORD's feet | tree rules |

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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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יְהֹוָ֗ה אֶ֤רֶךְ אַפַּ֙יִם֙ וּגְדָל־כֹּ֔חַ וְנַקֵּ֖ה לֹ֣א יְנַקֶּ֑ה יְהוָ֗ה בְּסוּפָ֤ה וּבִשְׂעָרָה֙ דַּרְכּ֔וֹ וְעָנָ֖ן אֲבַ֥ק רַגְלָֽיו׃

[Nahum 1:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.3/)

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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:3` 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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