Jeremiah 2:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods?
Who acts: nation, gods · What happens: change, be · To what, where: gods
This is Jeremiah 2:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (nation, gods), 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 | Hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nation | det |
| 3 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gods | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 changed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gods | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 gods | nsubj |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 gods | advmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gods | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 gods | det |
| 12 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gods | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present · perfect | a nation | nation's gods | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | nation's gods | no gods | yet | 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
הַהֵימִ֥יר גּוֹי֙ אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְהֵ֖מָּה לֹ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְעַמִּ֛י הֵמִ֥יר כְּבוֹד֖וֹ בְּל֥וֹא יוֹעִֽיל׃
Jeremiah 2:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods?
- But My people hath changed its glory for that which doth not profit.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:29 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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