Jeremiah 49:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 4
Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?
Who acts: Malcam, people · What happens: take, dwell, possess · To what, where: possession, cities, Gad
This is Jeremiah 49:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 4 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 (Malcam, 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 take | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 take | advmod |
| 3 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | Malcam | Malcam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Gad | case |
| 8 | Gad | Gad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 possession | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dwell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dwell | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 people | nmod:poss |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dwell | nsubj |
| 13 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cities | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cities | det |
| 16 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dwell | obl |
| 17 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 16 cities | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · do-support | Malcam | possession of Gad | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | |||
| 2 | dwell | present | Malcam's people | the cities | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | ||||
| 3 | possess | Gad | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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
לִבְנֵ֣י עַמּ֗וֹן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הֲבָנִ֥ים אֵין֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־יוֹרֵ֖שׁ אֵ֣ין ל֑וֹ מַדּ֗וּעַ יָרַ֤שׁ מַלְכָּם֙ אֶת־גָּ֔ד וְעַמּ֖וֹ בְּעָרָ֥יו יָשָֽׁב׃
Jeremiah 49:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Of the children of Ammon.
- Thus saith the LORD: Hath Israel no sons?
- Hath he no heir?
- Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:1289 of Mova's parse database.
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