Jeremiah 4:20 · JPS 1917

Destruction followeth upon destruction, for the whole land is spoiled; suddenly are my tents spoiled, my curtains in a moment.

Who acts: Destruction · What happens: follow, spoil · To what, where: destruction, whole land, tents

This is Jeremiah 4:20 · 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 (Destruction), 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	Destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followeth	nsubj
2	followeth	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 destruction	case
4	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followeth	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spoiled	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 spoiled	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 land	amod
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spoiled	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 spoiled	aux:pass
11	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 followeth	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 spoiled	punct
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	17 spoiled	advmod
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 spoiled	aux:pass
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tents	nmod:poss
16	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spoiled	nsubj:pass
17	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 followeth	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 curtains	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 curtains	nmod:poss
20	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tents	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 moment	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 moment	det
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 curtains	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followeth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	present	Destruction		destruction		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon destruction=Location
2	spoil	present · passive		the whole land			tree rules
3	spoil	present · passive		my tents and my curtains in a moment		suddenly property	tree rules

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

שֶׁ֤בֶר עַל־שֶׁ֙בֶר֙ נִקְרָ֔א כִּ֥י שֻׁדְּדָ֖ה כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ פִּתְאֹם֙ שֻׁדְּד֣וּ אֹהָלַ֔י רֶ֖גַע יְרִיעֹתָֽי׃

Jeremiah 4:20: 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:122 of Mova's parse database.

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