Jeremiah 14:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save?
Who acts: thou, mighty man · What happens: be, overcome, not save · To what, where: man
This is Jeremiah 14:9 · 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 (thou, mighty man), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 man | advmod |
| 2 | shouldest | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 man | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 man | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 save | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 save | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 save | advmod |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | thou | as a man and a mighty man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overcome | participle | a man and a mighty man not said here | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not save | can | a mighty man | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
לָ֤מָּה תִֽהְיֶה֙ כְּאִ֣ישׁ נִדְהָ֔ם כְּגִבּ֖וֹר לֹא־יוּכַ֣ל לְהוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְאַתָּ֧ה בְקִרְבֵּ֣נוּ יְהוָ֗ה וְשִׁמְךָ֛ עָלֵ֥ינוּ נִקְרָ֖א אַל־תַּנִּחֵֽנוּ׃ס
Jeremiah 14:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save?
- Yet Thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and Thy name is called upon us; leave us not.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:410 of Mova's parse database.
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