Jeremiah 12:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3
Are the birds of prey against her round about?
What happens: be · To what, where: birds
This is Jeremiah 12:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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: 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 birds | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 birds | det |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 prey | case |
| 5 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 birds | nmod |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 round | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 round | nmod:poss |
| 8 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 birds | nmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 round | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 birds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the birds | of prey; against heritage's round | 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
הַעַ֨יִט צָב֤וּעַ נַחֲלָתִי֙ לִ֔י הַעַ֖יִט סָבִ֣יב עָלֶ֑יהָ לְכ֗וּ אִסְפ֛וּ כָּל־חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה הֵתָ֥יוּ לְאָכְלָֽה׃
Jeremiah 12:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey?
- Are the birds of prey against her round about?
- Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:361 of Mova's parse database.
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