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title: Nahum 1:6 (JPS 1917) — His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder b… · tree and pragmatics
description: His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder before Him. Who acts: LORD. 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 3 of 3

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His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder before Him.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** pour out, break, infuriate · **To what, where:** fury, rocks

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This is Nahum 1:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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: who acts (LORD), 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:8
# text = His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder before Him.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fury	fury	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	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	asunder	asunder	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pour out** | present · passive |  | LORD's fury |  |  |  | like fire | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | present · passive |  | the rocks |  |  | before LORD | asunder *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **infuriate** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling 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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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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.6/)
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.**

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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:8` 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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