Jeremiah 16:7 · JPS 1917
neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Who acts: men · What happens: break, comfort, give, drink · To what, where: bread, mourning, men, cup, great
This is Jeremiah 16:7 · 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 (men), 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 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 break | cc |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | aux |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 break | nsubj |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 break | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mourning | case |
| 9 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 comfort | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 comfort | mark |
| 12 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 break | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 comfort | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 dead | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dead | det |
| 16 | dead | dead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comfort | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 18 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 give | cc |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 give | nsubj |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 break | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cup | det |
| 24 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 consolation | case |
| 26 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cup | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 drink | mark |
| 28 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 cup | acl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 father | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drink | obl |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 mother | cc |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 mother | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mother | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 father | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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- act
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | shall | men | bread | mourning | for great | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Patient | ||
| 2 | comfort | to-infinitive | men not said here | men = man | for the dead | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | give | shall | men | the cup of consolation | great | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cup=Theme | |||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | men not said here | the cup of consolation not said here | for men's father or men's mother | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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
וְלֹֽא־יִפְרְס֥וּ לָהֶ֛ם עַל־אֵ֖בֶל לְנַחֲמ֣וֹ עַל־מֵ֑ת וְלֹֽא־יַשְׁק֤וּ אוֹתָם֙ כּ֣וֹס תַּנְחוּמִ֔ים עַל־אָבִ֖יו וְעַל־אִמּֽוֹ׃
Jeremiah 16:7: 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:463 of Mova's parse database.
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