Jeremiah 40:14 · JPS 1917
and said unto him: 'Dost thou know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take thy life?' But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
Who acts: thou, Baalis, Gedaliah · What happens: say, know, send, take, not believe · To what, where: Ishmael, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 40:14 · 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 (thou, Baalis, Gedaliah), 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 | _ | 2 said | cc |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 7 | Dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 sent | mark |
| 11 | Baalis | Baalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Baalis | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 king | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Ammon | case |
| 18 | Ammon | Ammon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 children | nmod |
| 19 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | aux |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 know | ccomp |
| 21 | Ishmael | Ishmael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 son | det |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Ishmael | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Nethaniah | case |
| 25 | Nethaniah | Nethaniah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 take | mark |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sent | advcl |
| 28 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 life | nmod:poss |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 32 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 believed | cc |
| 33 | Gedaliah | Gedaliah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 believed | nsubj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 son | det |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Gedaliah | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Ahikam | case |
| 37 | Ahikam | Ahikam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 son | nmod |
| 38 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 believed | obj |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 believed | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | unto Gedaliah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | present · do-support | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | send | present · perfect | Baalis | Ishmael | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ishmael=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | Baalis not said here | thy life | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not believe | past | Gedaliah | Ishmael | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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
וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו הֲיָדֹ֤עַתֵּדַע֙ כִּ֞י בַּעֲלִ֣יס ׀ מֶ֣לֶךְ בְּנֵֽי־עַמּ֗וֹן שָׁלַח֙ אֶת־יִשְׁמָעֵ֣אל בֶּן־נְתַנְיָ֔ה לְהַכֹּתְךָ֖ נָ֑פֶשׁ וְלֹא־הֶאֱמִ֣ין לָהֶ֔ם גְּדַלְיָ֖הוּ בֶּן־אֲחִיקָֽם׃
Jeremiah 40:14: 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:1107 of Mova's parse database.
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