Jeremiah 8:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Lo, certainly in vain hath wrought the vain pen of the scribes.
Who acts: vain pen · What happens: wrought · To what, where: vain
This is Jeremiah 8:8 · 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 (vain pen), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 7 wrought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 wrought | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vain | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wrought | obl |
| 6 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrought | aux |
| 7 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pen | det |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pen | amod |
| 10 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrought | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 scribes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 scribes | det |
| 13 | scribes | scribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pen | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrought | 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 | wrought | present · perfect | the vain pen of the scribes | vain | certainly property | 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
אֵיכָ֤ה תֹֽאמְרוּ֙ חֲכָמִ֣ים אֲנַ֔חְנוּ וְתוֹרַ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה אִתָּ֑נוּ אָכֵן֙ הִנֵּ֣ה לַשֶּׁ֣קֶר עָשָׂ֔ה עֵ֖ט שֶׁ֥קֶר סֹפְרִֽים׃
Jeremiah 8:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- How do ye say: 'We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us'?
- Lo, certainly in vain hath wrought the vain pen of the scribes.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:247 of Mova's parse database.
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