Jeremiah 2:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unto Thee'?
Who acts: people, We · What happens: say, roam, come · To what, where: large · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 2:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (people, We), 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 say | advmod |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 people | nmod:poss |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 roam | punct |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 roam | nsubj |
| 8 | roam | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 large | case |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 roam | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 roam | parataxis |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 come | advmod |
| 17 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 18 Thee | case |
| 18 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 come | obl |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | infinitive | My people | wherefore property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | roam | present | We | large | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at large=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | future | we | unto Thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
הַדּ֗וֹר אַתֶּם֙ רְא֣וּ דְבַר־יְהוָ֔ה הֲמִדְבָּ֤ר הָיִ֙יתִי֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִ֛ם אֶ֥רֶץ מַאְפֵּ֖לְיָ֑ה מַדּ֜וּעַ אָמְר֤וּ עַמִּי֙ רַ֔דְנוּ לֽוֹא־נָב֥וֹא ע֖וֹד אֵלֶֽיךָ׃
Jeremiah 2:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- O generation, see ye the word of the LORD: have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness?
- Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unto Thee'?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:58 of Mova's parse database.
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