Jeremiah 37:20 · JPS 1917
And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.'
Who acts: you, I, supplication, thou, me, my · What happens: hear, pray, let, present, cause, not return · To what, where: thee, supplication, me
This is Jeremiah 37:20 · 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 (you, I, supplication, thou), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hear | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hear | advmod |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | nsubj |
| 6 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | parataxis |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 pray | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lord | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 lord | discourse |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lord | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pray | vocative |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lord | appos |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hear | parataxis |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 supplication | nmod:poss |
| 17 | supplication | supplication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pray | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pray | nsubj |
| 20 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | parataxis |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 pray | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 presented | punct |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 presented | aux:pass |
| 24 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 let | xcomp |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 thee | case |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 presented | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 cause | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 cause | mark |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 cause | nsubj |
| 30 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | advcl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 cause | obj |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 return | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 return | mark |
| 34 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 cause | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 house | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 house | det |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 return | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Jonathan | case |
| 39 | Jonathan | Jonathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 house | nmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 scribe | det |
| 41 | scribe | scribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Jonathan | appos |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 die | punct |
| 43 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 45 die | mark |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 die | nsubj |
| 45 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 return | advcl |
| 46 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 die | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
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 | hear | imperative | you not said here | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | thee | my lord vocative | tree rules | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | my supplication | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pray | present | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | present | infinitive · passive | my supplication not said here | before thee | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 6 | cause | present | thou | me | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not return | to-infinitive | me not said here | to the house of Jonathan result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 8 | die | present | I | there | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 9 | supplicate | my | nom supplication «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
וְעַתָּ֕ה שְֽׁמַֽע־נָ֖א אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ תִּפָּל־נָ֤א תְחִנָּתִי֙ לְפָנֶ֔יךָ וְאַל־תְּשִׁבֵ֗נִי בֵּ֚ית יְהוֹנָתָ֣ן הַסֹּפֵ֔ר וְלֹ֥א אָמ֖וּת שָֽׁם׃
Jeremiah 37:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:1040 of Mova's parse database.
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