Jeremiah 10:3 · JPS 1917

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for it is but a tree which one cutteth out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

Who acts: customs, vanity, one, hands · What happens: be, cut out, work · To what, where: vanity, tree, forest

This is Jeremiah 10:3 · 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 (customs, vanity, one, hands), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 customs	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 customs	det
3	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 vanity	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 peoples	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peoples	det
6	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 customs	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 vanity	cop
8	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tree	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 tree	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tree	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tree	cop
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 tree	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vanity	advcl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 cutteth	obj
17	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cutteth	nsubj
18	cutteth	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tree	acl:relcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 forest	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 forest	fixed
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forest	det
22	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cutteth	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 work	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 work	det
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 hands	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hands	det
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 work	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 workman	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 workman	det
31	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hands	nmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 axe	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 axe	det
34	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 workman	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 vanity	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the customs of the peoples	vanity		tree rules
2	is a	present	vanity	a tree		tree rules
3	cut out	present	one	a tree	the forest	tree rules
4	work		the hands of the workman with the axe			nom work «act intransitive»: of=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

כִּֽי־חֻקּ֥וֹת הָֽעַמִּ֖ים הֶ֣בֶל ה֑וּא כִּֽי־עֵץ֙ מִיַּ֣עַר כְּרָת֔וֹ מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יְדֵ֥י־חָרָ֖שׁ בַּֽמַּעֲצָֽד׃

Jeremiah 10:3: 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:299 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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