Jeremiah 48:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3
For was not Israel a derision unto thee?
Who acts: Israel · What happens: not be · To what, where: derision
This is Jeremiah 48:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Israel), 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 | CCONJ | _ | 6 derision | cc |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 derision | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 derision | advmod |
| 4 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 derision | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 derision | det |
| 6 | derision | derision | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 derision | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 derision | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Israel | a derision | unto thee | 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
וְאִ֣ם ׀ ל֣וֹא הַשְּׂחֹ֗ק הָיָ֤ה לְךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־בְּגַנָּבִ֖ים נִמְצָ֑א כִּֽי־מִדֵּ֧י דְבָרֶ֥יךָ בּ֖וֹ תִּתְנוֹדָֽד׃
Jeremiah 48:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- For was not Israel a derision unto thee?
- Was he found among thieves?
- For as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:1261 of Mova's parse database.
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