Jeremiah 15:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed?
Who acts: pain, wound, my · What happens: be, refuse, not heal, pain, wound
This is Jeremiah 15:18 · 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 (pain, wound, my), 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 | 5 perpetual | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 perpetual | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pain | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perpetual | nsubj |
| 5 | perpetual | perpetual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 incurable | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 incurable | cc |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wound | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 incurable | nsubj |
| 10 | incurable | incurable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 perpetual | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 refuseth | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 refuseth | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 refuseth | nsubj |
| 15 | refuseth | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 perpetual | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 healed | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 healed | aux:pass |
| 18 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 refuseth | xcomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 perpetual | punct |
Pragmatics
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- wh-question
- act
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- polarity
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my pain | perpetual property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | my wound | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | refuse | present | wound | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not heal | to-infinitive · passive | wound not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 5 | pain | my | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | wound | my | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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
לָ֣מָּה הָיָ֤ה כְאֵבִי֙ נֶ֔צַח וּמַכָּתִ֖י אֲנוּשָׁ֑ה֙ מֵֽאֲנָה֙ הֵֽרָפֵ֔א הָי֨וֹ תִֽהְיֶ֥ה לִי֙ כְּמ֣וֹ אַכְזָ֔ב מַ֖יִם לֹ֥א נֶאֱמָֽנוּ׃ס
Jeremiah 15:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed?
- Wilt Thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:452 of Mova's parse database.
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