Jeremiah 2:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Who acts: thou · What happens: do, drink · To what, where: way, waters
This is Jeremiah 2:18 · 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 (thou), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 3 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Assyria | case |
| 11 | Assyria | Assyria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drink | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drink | mark |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 waters | det |
| 16 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 drink | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 River | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 River | det |
| 19 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 waters | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | thou | the way to Assyria | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | thou not said here | the waters of the River | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
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
וְעַתָּ֗ה מַה־לָּךְ֙ לְדֶ֣רֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם לִשְׁתּ֖וֹת מֵ֣י שִׁח֑וֹר וּמַה־לָּךְ֙ לְדֶ֣רֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר לִשְׁתּ֖וֹת מֵ֥י נָהָֽר׃
Jeremiah 2:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor?
- Or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:40 of Mova's parse database.
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