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title: Nahum 1:6 (JPS 1917) — Who can stand before His indignation? · tree and pragmatics
description: Who can stand before His indignation? Nahum 1:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nahum 1:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Who can stand before His indignation?

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**What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** indignation

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This is Nahum 1:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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:6
# text = Who can stand before His indignation?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=express, indirect=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | can |  |  |  | LORD's indignation |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before indignation=Location |

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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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לִפְנֵ֤י זַעְמוֹ֙ מִ֣י יַֽעֲמ֔וֹד וּמִ֥י יָק֖וּם בַּחֲר֣וֹן אַפּ֑וֹ חֲמָתוֹ֙ נִתְּכָ֣ה כָאֵ֔שׁ וְהַצֻּרִ֖ים נִתְּצ֥וּ מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

[Nahum 1:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Who can stand before His indignation?**
2. [And who can abide in the fierceness of His anger?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.7/)
3. [His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder before Him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.8/)

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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:6` 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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