Jeremiah 12:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Right wouldest Thou be, O LORD, were I to contend with Thee, yet will I reason with Thee: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?
Who acts: I, way · What happens: be, reason, prosper
This is Jeremiah 12:1 · 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 (I, way), 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 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 4 be | advmod |
| 2 | wouldest | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 be | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 contend | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 LORD | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 LORD | discourse |
| 7 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 be | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 LORD | punct |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 contend | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 contend | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 contend | mark |
| 12 | contend | contend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Thee | case |
| 14 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 contend | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reason | punct |
| 16 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 reason | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 reason | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 reason | nsubj |
| 19 | reason | reason | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 contend | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Thee | case |
| 21 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 reason | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 prosper | punct |
| 23 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 prosper | advmod |
| 24 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 prosper | aux |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 prosper | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wicked | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wicked | det |
| 29 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 way | nmod |
| 30 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 reason | parataxis |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 contend | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=express, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | I | with Thee; contend property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reason | future | I | with Thee | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | prosper | present · do-support | the way of the wicked | wherefore property | vn exist-47.1 «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
צַדִּ֤יק אַתָּה֙ יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֥י אָרִ֖יב אֵלֶ֑יךָ אַ֤ךְ מִשְׁפָּטִים֙ אֲדַבֵּ֣ר אוֹתָ֔ךְ מַדּ֗וּעַ דֶּ֤רֶךְ רְשָׁעִים֙ צָלֵ֔חָה שָׁל֖וּ כָּל־בֹּ֥גְדֵי בָֽגֶד׃
Jeremiah 12:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Right wouldest Thou be, O LORD, were I to contend with Thee, yet will I reason with Thee: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?
- Wherefore are all they secure that deal very treacherously?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:349 of Mova's parse database.
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