Jeremiah 48:38 · JPS 1917
On all the housetops of Moab and in the broad places thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
Who acts: lamentation, I, pleasure, LORD · What happens: be, break, say · To what, where: housetops, Moab · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 48:38 · 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 (lamentation, I, pleasure, LORD), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 housetops | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 housetops | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 housetops | det |
| 4 | housetops | housetop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 is | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Moab | case |
| 6 | Moab | Moab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 housetops | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 places | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 places | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 places | det |
| 10 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 places | amod |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 housetops | conj |
| 12 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 11 places | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 where | det |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 is | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 broken | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 broken | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 broken | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 broken | aux |
| 22 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 is | advcl |
| 23 | Moab | Moab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 broken | obj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 vessel | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 vessel | det |
| 26 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 broken | obl |
| 27 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 is | advmod |
| 28 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 vessel | acl:relcl |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 pleasure | det |
| 30 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 is | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 saith | punct |
| 32 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 is | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 LORD | det |
| 34 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 saith | nsubj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | lamentation | all housetops of Moab and the broad places; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on housetop=Location | ||||
| 2 | break | present · perfect | I | Moab | like a vessel | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moab=Patient | |||
| 3 | be | present | no pleasure | wherein property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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
עַ֣ל כָּל־גַּגּ֥וֹת מוֹאָ֛ב וּבִרְחֹבֹתֶ֖יהָ כֻּלֹּ֣ה מִסְפֵּ֑ד כִּֽי־שָׁבַ֣רְתִּי אֶת־מוֹאָ֗ב כִּכְלִ֛י אֵֽין־חֵ֥פֶץ בּ֖וֹ נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃
Jeremiah 48:38: 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:1274 of Mova's parse database.
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