Jeremiah 10:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
Who acts: you, customs, evil · What happens: not be, not do, be, do · To what, where: evil, good
This is Jeremiah 10:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (you, customs, evil), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 afraid | advmod |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 do | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | advcl |
| 12 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 them | punct |
| 14 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 them | cc |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 them | cop |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 them | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 them | acl |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative | you not said here | of customs = custom; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | can | customs = custom | evil | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | evil | in cucumbers = cucumber | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | customs = custom not said here | good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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:302 of Mova's parse database.
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