Jeremiah 6:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country?

Who acts: frankincense · What happens: be, come · To what, where: frankincense, Me, Sheba

This is Jeremiah 6:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (frankincense), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 purpose	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frankincense	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 frankincense	cop
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Me	case
6	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 frankincense	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 frankincense	det
8	frankincense	frankincense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cometh	nsubj
10	cometh	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 frankincense	acl:relcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Sheba	case
12	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cometh	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cane	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cane	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cane	det
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cane	amod
17	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frankincense	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 country	punct
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 country	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 country	det
21	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 country	amod
22	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cane	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 frankincense	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: express
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=express

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the frankincense and the sweet cane from a far country	Me			to what purpose	tree rules
2	come	present	the frankincense and the sweet cane from a far country			Sheba			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sheba=Initial_Location

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

לָמָּה־זֶּ֨ה לִ֤י לְבוֹנָה֙ מִשְּׁבָ֣א תָב֔וֹא וְקָנֶ֥ה הַטּ֖וֹב מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מֶרְחָ֑ק עֹלֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ לֹ֣א לְרָצ֔וֹן וְזִבְחֵיכֶ֖ם לֹא־עָ֥רְבוּ לִֽי׃ס

Jeremiah 6:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country?
Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:190 of Mova's parse database.

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