Jeremiah 21:2 · JPS 1917
'Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; peradventure the LORD will deal with us according to all His wondrous works, that he may go up from us.'
Who acts: you, I, Nebuchadrezzar king, LORD, king · What happens: inquire, pray, make, deal, accord, go up · To what, where: thee, war
This is Jeremiah 21:2 · 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 (you, I, Nebuchadrezzar king, 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 | _ | 2 Inquire | punct |
| 2 | Inquire | inquire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | nsubj |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Inquire | parataxis |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 pray | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 LORD | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 LORD | det |
| 10 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pray | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Inquire | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 maketh | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 maketh | mark |
| 15 | Nebuchadrezzar | Nebuchadrezzar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 king | compound |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 maketh | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Babylon | case |
| 18 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 king | nmod |
| 19 | maketh | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Inquire | advcl |
| 20 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 maketh | obj |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 maketh | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 peradventure | punct |
| 24 | peradventure | peradventure | ADV | _ | 2 Inquire | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 LORD | det |
| 26 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 deal | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 deal | aux |
| 28 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Inquire | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 us | case |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 deal | obl |
| 31 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 works | case |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 according | fixed |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 works | det:predet |
| 34 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 works | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 works | amod |
| 36 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 deal | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 go | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 go | nsubj |
| 40 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 go | aux |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 deal | advcl |
| 42 | up | up | ADV | _ | 41 go | advmod |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 us | case |
| 44 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 go | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Inquire | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Inquire | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | imperative | you not said here | for us; peradventure property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | thee | of the LORD | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | present | Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon | war | against us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Product | |||
| 4 | deal | future | the LORD | with us; accord king's wondrous works | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with we=Theme | ||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | go up | may | king | from us | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | work | king | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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
דְּרָשׁ־נָ֤א בַעֲדֵ֙נוּ֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֛י נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל נִלְחָ֣ם עָלֵ֑ינוּ אוּלַי֩ יַעֲשֶׂ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה אוֹתָ֙נוּ֙ כְּכָל־נִפְלְאֹתָ֔יו וְיַעֲלֶ֖ה מֵעָלֵֽינוּ׃ס
Jeremiah 21:2: 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:568 of Mova's parse database.
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