Jeremiah 14:6 · JPS 1917
And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
Who acts: wild asses, asses, eyes, herbage · What happens: stand, gasp, fail, be · To what, where: high hills
This is Jeremiah 14:6 · 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 (wild asses, asses, eyes, herbage), 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 | _ | 5 stand | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 asses | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 asses | amod |
| 4 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hills | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hills | amod |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stand | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gasp | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gasp | nsubj |
| 12 | gasp | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gasp | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 jackals | case |
| 16 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gasp | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fail | punct |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fail | nsubj |
| 20 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 is | punct |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 is | mark |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 is | expl |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fail | advcl |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 herbage | det |
| 26 | herbage | herbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 is | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the wild asses | the high hills | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location | ||||
| 2 | gasp | present | asses = ass | for air; like jackals | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for air=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fail | present | asses's eyes | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | present | no herbage | there | 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
וּפְרָאִים֙ עָמְד֣וּ עַל־שְׁפָיִ֔ם שָׁאֲפ֥וּ ר֖וּחַ כַּתַּנִּ֑ים כָּל֥וּ עֵינֵיהֶ֖ם כִּי־אֵ֥ין עֵֽשֶׂב׃
Jeremiah 14:6: 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:407 of Mova's parse database.
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