Jeremiah 8:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?
Who acts: perpetual backsliding · What happens: slidden back · To what, where: people
This is Jeremiah 8:5 · 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 (perpetual backsliding), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 slidden | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 slidden | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slidden | aux:pass |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 slidden | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Jerusalem | case |
| 7 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 people | nmod |
| 8 | slidden | slidden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 slidden | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 backsliding | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 backsliding | det |
| 12 | perpetual | perpetual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 backsliding | amod |
| 13 | backsliding | backslide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slidden | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 slidden | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slidden back | present · passive | a perpetual backsliding | this people of Jerusalem | then | tree rules |
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
מַדּ֨וּעַ שׁוֹבְבָ֜ה הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֛ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם מְשֻׁבָ֣ה נִצַּ֑חַת הֶחֱזִ֙יקוּ֙ בַּתַּרְמִ֔ית מֵאֲנ֖וּ לָשֽׁוּב׃
Jeremiah 8:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?
- They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:242 of Mova's parse database.
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