Jeremiah 8:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3
Is there no balm in Gilead?
What happens: be · To what, where: balm, Gilead
This is Jeremiah 8:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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: 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 balm | cop |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 balm | expl |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 balm | det |
| 4 | balm | balm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Gilead | case |
| 6 | Gilead | Gilead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 balm | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 balm | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | no balm | Gilead; there | 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
הַצֳרִי֙ אֵ֣ין בְּגִלְעָ֔ד אִם־רֹפֵ֖א אֵ֣ין שָׁ֑ם כִּ֗י מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ לֹ֣א עָֽלְתָ֔ה אֲרֻכַ֖ת בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃
Jeremiah 8:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Is there no balm in Gilead?
- Is there no physician there?
- Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:263 of Mova's parse database.
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