Jeremiah 2:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
How canst thou say: 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim'?
Who acts: thou, I · What happens: say, not defile, not go · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 2:23 · 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, I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 say | advmod |
| 2 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 defiled | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 defiled | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 defiled | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 defiled | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 defiled | advmod |
| 10 | defiled | defile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 say | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 gone | advmod |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 defiled | conj |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 Baalim | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Baalim | det |
| 18 | Baalim | Baalim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | obl |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 defiled | punct |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | thou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not defile | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not go | present · perfect | I | after the Baalim | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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
אֵ֣יךְ תֹּאמְרִ֞י לֹ֣א נִטְמֵ֗אתִי אַחֲרֵ֤י הַבְּעָלִים֙ לֹ֣א הָלַ֔כְתִּי רְאִ֤י דַרְכֵּךְ֙ בַּגַּ֔יְא דְּעִ֖י מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֑ית בִּכְרָ֥ה קַלָּ֖ה מְשָׂרֶ֥כֶת דְּרָכֶֽיהָ׃
Jeremiah 2:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- How canst thou say: 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim'?
- See thy way in the Valley, know what thou hast done; thou art a swift young camel traversing her ways;
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:45 of Mova's parse database.
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