Jeremiah 5:31 · JPS 1917
The prophets prophesy in the service of falsehood, and the priests bear rule at their beck; and My people love to have it so; What then will ye do in the end thereof?
Who acts: prophets, priests, people, ye · What happens: prophesy, bear, love, have, do, service · To what, where: service, rule, beck, end, falsehood
This is Jeremiah 5:31 · 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 (prophets, priests, people, ye), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prophets | det |
| 2 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 prophesy | nsubj |
| 3 | prophesy | prophesy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 service | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 service | det |
| 6 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prophesy | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 falsehood | case |
| 8 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 service | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bear | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bear | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 priests | det |
| 12 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bear | nsubj |
| 13 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 prophesy | conj |
| 14 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bear | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 beck | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beck | beck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bear | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 love | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 love | cc |
| 20 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 people | nmod:poss |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 love | nsubj |
| 22 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 prophesy | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 love | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 have | advmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 do | punct |
| 28 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 do | obj |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 do | advmod |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 do | aux |
| 31 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 do | nsubj |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 love | parataxis |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 end | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 end | det |
| 35 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 do | obl |
| 36 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 35 end | advmod |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 32 do | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prophesy | present | the prophets | the service of falsehood | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bear | present | the priests | rule | priests's beck | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | |||
| 3 | love | present | My people | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | My people not said here | rule | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | do | future | ye | in the end; then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | service | falsehood | nom service «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
הַנְּבִיאִ֞ים נִבְּא֣וּ־בַשֶּׁ֗קֶר וְהַכֹּהֲנִים֙ יִרְדּ֣וּ עַל־יְדֵיהֶ֔ם וְעַמִּ֖י אָ֣הֲבוּ כֵ֑ן וּמַֽה־תַּעֲשׂ֖וּ לְאַחֲרִיתָֽהּ׃
Jeremiah 5:31: 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:168 of Mova's parse database.
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