Jeremiah 9:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3
Wherefore is the land perished and laid waste like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?
Who acts: none · What happens: perish, lay, pass through · To what, where: land
This is Jeremiah 9:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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: who acts (none), 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 perished | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 perished | aux:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 land | det |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 laid | cc |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 perished | conj |
| 8 | waste | waste | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laid | xcomp |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 wilderness | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wilderness | det |
| 11 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 passeth | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 16 passeth | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 16 passeth | nsubj |
| 16 | passeth | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 perished | advcl |
| 17 | through | through | ADV | _ | 16 passeth | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 perished | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, form=q
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | present · passive | the land | wherefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | like a wilderness; waste property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pass through | present | none | through property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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־הָאִ֤ישׁ הֶֽחָכָם֙ וְיָבֵ֣ן אֶת־זֹ֔את וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֧ר פִּֽי־יְהוָ֛ה אֵלָ֖יו וְיַגִּדָ֑הּ עַל־מָה֙ אָבְדָ֣ה הָאָ֔רֶץ נִצְּתָ֥ה כַמִּדְבָּ֖ר מִבְּלִ֖י עֹבֵֽר׃ס
Jeremiah 9:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Who is the wise man, that he may understand this?
- And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it?
- Wherefore is the land perished and laid waste like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:281 of Mova's parse database.
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