Jeremiah 51:55 · JPS 1917
For the LORD spoileth Babylon, and destroyeth out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters, the noise of their voice is uttered;
Who acts: LORD, waves, Chaldeans, voice · What happens: spoil, destroy, roar, utter, wave, noise · To what, where: Babylon, great voice, noise
This is Jeremiah 51:55 · 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 (LORD, waves, Chaldeans, voice), 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 | _ | 4 spoileth | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoileth | nsubj |
| 4 | spoileth | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoileth | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 destroyeth | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 destroyeth | cc |
| 8 | destroyeth | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoileth | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 voice | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 destroyeth | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 roar | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 roar | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 waves | nmod:poss |
| 18 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 roar | nsubj |
| 19 | roar | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoileth | conj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 waters | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 waters | amod |
| 22 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 roar | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 uttered | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 noise | det |
| 25 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 uttered | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 voice | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 voice | nmod:poss |
| 28 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 noise | nmod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 uttered | aux:pass |
| 30 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 roar | parataxis |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoileth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | present | the LORD | Babylon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | destroy | present | the LORD not said here | the great voice of Babylon | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 3 | roar | present | Chaldeans's waves | like many waters | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | present · passive | the noise of Chaldeans's voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | wave | Chaldeans | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | noise | Chaldeans's voice | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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
כִּֽי־שֹׁדֵ֤ד יְהוָה֙ אֶת־בָּבֶ֔ל וְאִבַּ֥ד מִמֶּ֖נָּה ק֣וֹל גָּד֑וֹל וְהָמ֤וּ גַלֵּיהֶם֙ כְּמַ֣יִם רַבִּ֔ים נִתַּ֥ן שְׁא֖וֹן קוֹלָֽם׃
Jeremiah 51:55: 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:1433 of Mova's parse database.
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