Jeremiah 18:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3
Shall evil be recompensed for good?
What happens: recompense · To what, where: evil
This is Jeremiah 18:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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: 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 recompensed | aux |
| 2 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recompensed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 recompensed | aux:pass |
| 4 | recompensed | recompense | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 good | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 recompensed | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 recompensed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- express
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed indirect=1, act=express
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recompense | shall · passive | evil | for good | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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
הַיְשֻׁלַּ֤ם תַּֽחַת־טוֹבָה֙ רָעָ֔ה כִּֽי־כָר֥וּ שׁוּחָ֖ה לְנַפְשִׁ֑י זְכֹ֣ר ׀ עָמְדִ֣י לְפָנֶ֗יךָ לְדַבֵּ֤ר עֲלֵיהֶם֙ טוֹבָ֔ה לְהָשִׁ֥יב אֶת־חֲמָתְךָ֖ מֵהֶֽם׃
Jeremiah 18:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Shall evil be recompensed for good?
- For they have digged a pit for my soul.
- Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good for them, to turn away Thy wrath from them.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:527 of Mova's parse database.
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