Jeremiah 18:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
'O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD.
Who acts: I, LORD · What happens: not do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 18:6 · 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 (I, LORD), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 house | discourse |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | vocative |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Israel | case |
| 5 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 house | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 house | punct |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 do | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 saith | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 potter | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 potter | det |
| 15 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 17 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 LORD | det |
| 19 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saith | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 saith | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=q
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | can | I | with you; as this potter; house of Israel vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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
הֲכַיּוֹצֵ֨ר הַזֶּ֜ה לֹא־אוּכַ֨ל לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת לָכֶ֛ם בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה הִנֵּ֤ה כַחֹ֙מֶר֙ בְּיַ֣ד הַיּוֹצֵ֔ר כֵּן־אַתֶּ֥ם בְּיָדִ֖י בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס
Jeremiah 18:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- 'O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD.
- Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in My hand, O house of Israel.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:511 of Mova's parse database.
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