Jeremiah 17:23 · JPS 1917

but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

Who acts: fathers · What happens: not hearken, incline, make, not hear, receive · To what, where: ear, neck, instruction

This is Jeremiah 17:23 · 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 (fathers), 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	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 hearkened	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hearkened	nsubj
3	hearkened	hearken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 hearkened	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 inclined	punct
6	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 inclined	cc:preconj
7	inclined	incline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hearkened	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ear	nmod:poss
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inclined	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hearkened	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neck	nmod:poss
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
15	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 hear	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 hear	advmod
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 receive	punct
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 receive	cc
24	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hear	conj
25	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 receive	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hearkened	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hearken	past	fathers = father			tree rules
2	incline	past	fathers = father not said here	fathers's ear		vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
3	make	past	fathers = father not said here	fathers's neck	stiff property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset neck=Product
4	not hear	might	fathers = father			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	receive	infinitive	fathers = father not said here	instruction		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=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

וְלֹ֣א שָֽׁמְע֔וּ וְלֹ֥א הִטּ֖וּ אֶת־אָזְנָ֑ם וַיַּקְשׁוּ֙ אֶת־עָרְפָּ֔ם לְבִלְתִּ֣י שְׁמ֔וֹעַ וּלְבִלְתִּ֖י קַ֥חַת מוּסָֽר׃

Jeremiah 17:23: 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:501 of Mova's parse database.

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