Jeremiah 51:53 · JPS 1917
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
Who acts: Babylon, spoilers, LORD · What happens: mount up, fortify, come, say · To what, where: heaven, height · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 51:53 · 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 (Babylon, spoilers, 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 mount | mark |
| 2 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mount | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 mount | aux |
| 4 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 come | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 mount | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 heaven | case |
| 7 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mount | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fortify | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fortify | cc |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 fortify | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fortify | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fortify | aux |
| 13 | fortify | fortify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 come | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 height | det |
| 15 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fortify | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 strength | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 strength | nmod:poss |
| 18 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 height | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 20 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Me | case |
| 22 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 come | obl |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 24 | spoilers | spoiler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 come | nsubj |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 saith | ccomp |
| 26 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 come | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saith | punct |
| 29 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 LORD | det |
| 31 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 saith | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 saith | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount up | should | Babylon | heaven | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Location | ||||
| 2 | fortify | should | Babylon | the height of Babylon's strength | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent height=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | shall | spoilers | from Me; unto Babylon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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
כִּֽי־תַעֲלֶ֤ה בָבֶל֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְכִ֥י תְבַצֵּ֖ר מְר֣וֹם עֻזָּ֑הּ מֵאִתִּ֗י יָבֹ֧אוּ שֹׁדְדִ֛ים לָ֖הּ נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס
Jeremiah 51:53: 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:1431 of Mova's parse database.
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