Jeremiah 9:2 · JPS 1917
And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood; and they are grown mighty in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and Me they know not, saith the LORD.
Who acts: people, LORD · What happens: bend, grow, proceed, not know, say · To what, where: tongue, people, land, evil, Me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 9:2 · 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 (people, LORD), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bend | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bend | nsubj |
| 3 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bend | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bow | punct |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tongue | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 falsehood | case |
| 10 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bow | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grown | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 grown | aux:pass |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bend | conj |
| 16 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grown | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grown | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 truth | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 truth | cc |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 truth | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 truth | case |
| 24 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grown | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 proceed | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 proceed | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 proceed | nsubj |
| 28 | proceed | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bend | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 evil | case |
| 30 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 proceed | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 evil | case |
| 32 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 proceed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 know | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 know | cc |
| 35 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 know | obj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 know | nsubj |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 proceed | conj |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 know | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 saith | punct |
| 40 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bend | parataxis |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 LORD | det |
| 42 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 saith | nsubj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bend | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present | people | people's tongue | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent tongue=Material | ||||
| 2 | grow | present · passive | people | the land | for truth; mighty property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for truth=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | proceed | present | people | evil | to evil | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | not know | present | people | Me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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
וַֽיַּדְרְכ֤וּ אֶת־לְשׁוֹנָם֙ קַשְׁתָּ֣ם שֶׁ֔קֶר וְלֹ֥א לֶאֱמוּנָ֖ה גָּבְר֣וּ בָאָ֑רֶץ כִּי֩ מֵרָעָ֨ה אֶל־רָעָ֧ה ׀ יָצָ֛אוּ וְאֹתִ֥י לֹֽא־יָדָ֖עוּ נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס
Jeremiah 9:2: 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:269 of Mova's parse database.
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