Jeremiah 10:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go.

Who acts: customs · What happens: be, not speak, bear, not go · To what, where: garden, customs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Jeremiah 10:5 · 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 (customs), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pillar	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pillar	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 pillar	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pillar	det
5	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pillar	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cucumbers	case
10	cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 garden	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 speak	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 speak	cc
13	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pillar	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 speak	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 borne	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 borne	nsubj:pass
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 borne	aux
18	needs	need	ADV	_	20 borne	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 borne	aux:pass
20	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pillar	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 go	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 go	advmod
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 borne	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pillar	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	customs = custom		a garden of cucumbers	like a pillar	tree rules
2	not speak speech: other	present	customs = custom not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bear	must · passive		customs = custom		need property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	not go	can	customs = custom				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

כְּתֹ֨מֶר מִקְשָׁ֥ה הֵ֙מָּה֙ וְלֹ֣א יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ נָשׂ֥וֹא יִנָּשׂ֖וּא כִּ֣י לֹ֣א יִצְעָ֑דוּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֤וּ מֵהֶם֙ כִּי־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֔עוּ וְגַם־הֵיטֵ֖יב אֵ֥ין אוֹתָֽם׃ס

Jeremiah 10:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go.
Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:301 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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