Jeremiah 14:3 · JPS 1917
And their nobles send their lads for water: they come to the pits, and find no water; their vessels return empty; they are ashamed and confounded, and cover their heads.
Who acts: nobles, vessels · What happens: send, come, find, return, be, confound · To what, where: lads, pits, water, heads
This is Jeremiah 14:3 · 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 (nobles, vessels), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 send | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 3 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 send | nsubj |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 send | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 pits | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pits | det |
| 14 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 find | cc |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 return | punct |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 vessels | nmod:poss |
| 22 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 return | nsubj |
| 23 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | parataxis |
| 24 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 return | xcomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 ashamed | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ashamed | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 ashamed | cop |
| 28 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 send | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 confounded | cc |
| 30 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 ashamed | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cover | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 cover | cc |
| 33 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 ashamed | conj |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heads | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 cover | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | gates's nobles | gates's lads | for water | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | present | nobles = noble | the pits | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pit=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | present | nobles = noble not said here | no water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | ||||
| 4 | return | present | gates's vessels | empty property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | vessels = vessel | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | confound | participle | vessels = vessel not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | cover | present | vessels = vessel not said here | gates's heads | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination |
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
וְאַדִּ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם שָׁלְח֥וּ צְעִירֵיהֶ֖ם לַמָּ֑יִם בָּ֣אוּ עַל־גֵּבִ֞ים לֹא־מָ֣צְאוּ מַ֗יִם שָׁ֤בוּ כְלֵיהֶם֙ רֵיקָ֔ם בֹּ֥שׁוּ וְהָכְלְמ֖וּ וְחָפ֥וּ רֹאשָֽׁם׃
Jeremiah 14:3: 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:404 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.404/