Jeremiah 2:30 · JPS 1917

In vain have I smitten your children — they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Who acts: I, children, sword · What happens: smite, receive, devour · To what, where: children, vain, correction, prophets

This is Jeremiah 2:30 · 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 (I, children, sword), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smitten	obl
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smitten	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 smitten	nsubj
5	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 children	nmod:poss
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smitten	obj
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 received	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 received	nsubj
10	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smitten	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 correction	det
12	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 received	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 devoured	punct
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sword	nmod:poss
15	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 devoured	nsubj
16	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 devoured	aux
17	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 smitten	parataxis
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 prophets	nmod:poss
19	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 devoured	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lion	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 lion	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lion	det
23	destroying	destroy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lion	amod
24	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 devoured	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 smitten	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smite	present · perfect	I	your children	vain		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer
2	receive	past	children = child	no correction			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent correction=Theme
3	devour	present · perfect	your sword	your prophets		like a destroying lion	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Patient

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

לַשָּׁוְא֙ הִכֵּ֣יתִי אֶת־בְּנֵיכֶ֔ם מוּסָ֖ר לֹ֣א לָקָ֑חוּ אָכְלָ֧ה חַרְבְּכֶ֛ם נְבִֽיאֵיכֶ֖ם כְּאַרְיֵ֥ה מַשְׁחִֽית׃

Jeremiah 2:30: 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:56 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.56/