Jeremiah 6:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Behold, their ear is dull, and they cannot attend; behold, the word of the LORD is become unto them a reproach, they have no delight in it.
Who acts: ear, hosts · What happens: be, not attend, become, have, word · To what, where: word, delight, LORD
This is Jeremiah 6:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (ear, hosts), 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 6 dull | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Behold | punct |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ear | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dull | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dull | cop |
| 6 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 attend | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 attend | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 attend | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 attend | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 attend | advmod |
| 12 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dull | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 become | punct |
| 14 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 22 become | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 behold | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 become | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 LORD | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 LORD | det |
| 20 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 word | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 become | aux:pass |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dull | parataxis |
| 23 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 become | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 reproach | det |
| 26 | reproach | reproach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 become | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dull | parataxis |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 delight | det |
| 31 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 delight | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dull | 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 | is | present | hosts's ear | dull property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not attend | can | hosts = host | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | become | present · passive | the word of the LORD | unto hosts = host | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | have | present | hosts = host | no delight | word | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Patient | |||
| 5 | word | the LORD | nom word «communication 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
עַל־מִ֨י אֲדַבְּרָ֤ה וְאָעִ֙ידָה֙ וְיִשְׁמָ֔עוּ הִנֵּה֙ עֲרֵלָ֣ה אָזְנָ֔ם וְלֹ֥א יוּכְל֖וּ לְהַקְשִׁ֑יב הִנֵּ֣ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֗ה הָיָ֥ה לָהֶ֛ם לְחֶרְפָּ֖ה לֹ֥א יַחְפְּצוּ־בֽוֹ׃
Jeremiah 6:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear?
- Behold, their ear is dull, and they cannot attend; behold, the word of the LORD is become unto them a reproach, they have no delight in it.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:179 of Mova's parse database.
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