Jeremiah 10:8 · JPS 1917
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the vanities by which they are instructed are but a stock;
Who acts: nations, vanities · What happens: be, instruct · To what, where: nations, stock
This is Jeremiah 10:8 · 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 (nations, vanities), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 brutish | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brutish | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brutish | cop |
| 4 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 5 brutish | advmod |
| 5 | brutish | brutish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 foolish | cc |
| 7 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brutish | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 brutish | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vanities | det |
| 10 | vanities | vanity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stock | nsubj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 instructed | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 instructed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 instructed | aux:pass |
| 15 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 vanities | acl:relcl |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stock | cop |
| 17 | but | but | ADV | _ | 19 stock | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stock | det |
| 19 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brutish | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 brutish | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | nations = nation | altogether, brutish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | nations = nation not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | instruct speech: other | present · passive | the vanities | nations = nation | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the vanities | a stock | but property | 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
וּבְאַחַ֖ת יִבְעֲר֣וּ וְיִכְסָ֑לוּ מוּסַ֥ר הֲבָלִ֖ים עֵ֥ץ הֽוּא׃
Jeremiah 10:8: 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:306 of Mova's parse database.
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