Jeremiah 4:22 · JPS 1917

For My people is foolish, they know Me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Who acts: people · What happens: be, not know, have, do · To what, where: Me, sottish children, understanding, evil, good, knowledge

This is Jeremiah 4:22 · 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 (people), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 foolish	mark
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 people	nmod:poss
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 foolish	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 foolish	cop
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 know	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 know	obj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 children	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 children	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 children	cop
14	sottish	sottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 know	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 know	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 understanding	det
21	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 wise	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wise	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 wise	cop
25	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 know	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wise	xcomp
28	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 have	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 have	advcl
33	good	good	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	obj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
35	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 know	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 knowledge	det
37	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 foolish	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	My people		foolish property	tree rules
2	not know	present	people	Me		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	is a	present	people	sottish children		tree rules
4	have	present	people	no understanding		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient
5	is	present	people		wise property	tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	people not said here	evil		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality
7	do	to-infinitive	people not said here	good		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
8	have	present	people	no knowledge		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient

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

כִּ֣י ׀ אֱוִ֣יל עַמִּ֗י אוֹתִי֙ לֹ֣א יָדָ֔עוּ בָּנִ֤ים סְכָלִים֙ הֵ֔מָּה וְלֹ֥א נְבוֹנִ֖ים הֵ֑מָּה חֲכָמִ֥ים הֵ֙מָּה֙ לְהָרַ֔ע וּלְהֵיטִ֖יב לֹ֥א יָדָֽעוּ׃

Jeremiah 4:22: 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:124 of Mova's parse database.

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