Jeremiah 7:18 · JPS 1917
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me.
Who acts: children, fathers, women · What happens: gather, kindle, knead, make, pour out, provoke · To what, where: wood, fire, dough, cakes, drink offerings, Me
This is Jeremiah 7:18 · 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 (children, fathers, women), 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 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gather | nsubj |
| 3 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gather | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kindle | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kindle | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fathers | det |
| 8 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kindle | nsubj |
| 9 | kindle | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gather | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kindle | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knead | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knead | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 women | det |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knead | nsubj |
| 16 | knead | knead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gather | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dough | det |
| 18 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knead | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 knead | advcl |
| 22 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 queen | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 queen | det |
| 25 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 heaven | case |
| 27 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 queen | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pour | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pour | cc |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 pour | mark |
| 31 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 make | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 pour | compound:prt |
| 33 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 offerings | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 drink | punct |
| 35 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pour | obj |
| 36 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 38 gods | case |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gods | amod |
| 38 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pour | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 provoke | punct |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 provoke | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 provoke | nsubj |
| 42 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 provoke | aux |
| 43 | provoke | provoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 pour | advcl |
| 44 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 provoke | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gather | 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 | gather | present | the children | wood | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kindle | present | the fathers | the fire | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | ||||
| 3 | knead | present | the women | the dough | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent dough=Material | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the women not said here | cakes | to the queen of heaven | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product | |||
| 5 | pour out | to-infinitive | the women not said here | drink offerings | unto other gods | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Patient | |||
| 6 | provoke | may | women = woman | Me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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
הַבָּנִ֞ים מְלַקְּטִ֣ים עֵצִ֗ים וְהָֽאָבוֹת֙ מְבַעֲרִ֣ים אֶת־הָאֵ֔שׁ וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים לָשׁ֣וֹת בָּצֵ֑ק לַעֲשׂ֨וֹת כַּוָּנִ֜ים לִמְלֶ֣כֶת הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וְהַסֵּ֤ךְ נְסָכִים֙ לֵאלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים לְמַ֖עַן הַכְעִסֵֽנִי׃
Jeremiah 7:18: 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:220 of Mova's parse database.
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