Jeremiah 8:23 · JPS 1917

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Who acts: head, I · What happens: be, weep · To what, where: waters

This is Jeremiah 8:23 · 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 (head, I), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 waters	discourse
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 waters	mark
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waters	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waters	cop
6	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eyes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eyes	cc
9	mine	mine	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 waters	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fountain	det
12	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eyes	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 tears	case
14	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fountain	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 weep	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 weep	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 weep	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 weep	aux
19	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 waters	parataxis
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weep	obl:unmarked
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 night	cc
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 slain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 slain	det
25	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 weep	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 daughter	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 daughter	det
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slain	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 people	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 people	nmod:poss
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 daughter	nmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 waters	punct

Pragmatics

form: exclamation
act: express
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed form=excl, act=express

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	my head	waters and mine eyes					tree rules
2	weep	might	I				day	for the slain of the daughter of my people	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

מִֽי־יִתֵּ֤ן רֹאשִׁי֙ מַ֔יִם וְעֵינִ֖י מְק֣וֹר דִּמְעָ֑ה וְאֶבְכֶּה֙ יוֹמָ֣ם וָלַ֔יְלָה אֵ֖ת חַֽלְלֵ֥י בַת־עַמִּֽי׃

Jeremiah 8:23: 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:266 of Mova's parse database.

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