Jeremiah 23:16 · JPS 1917
Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you, they lead you unto vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
Who acts: LORD, prophets · What happens: say, not hearken, prophesy, lead, speak, word · To what, where: you, vision, mouth, prophets · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 23:16 · 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 (LORD, prophets), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 saith | advmod |
| 2 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 LORD | det |
| 4 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saith | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hosts | case |
| 6 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 LORD | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hearken | punct |
| 8 | Hearken | hearken | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 saith | ccomp |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 Hearken | advmod |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Hearken | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 prophets | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prophets | det |
| 15 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 words | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 prophesy | nsubj |
| 17 | prophesy | prophesy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 prophets | acl:relcl |
| 18 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 prophesy | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lead | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lead | nsubj |
| 22 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 saith | parataxis |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 lead | obj |
| 24 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 25 vanity | case |
| 25 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lead | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 speak | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 speak | nsubj |
| 28 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 saith | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 vision | det |
| 30 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 speak | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 heart | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 heart | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 heart | amod |
| 34 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 vision | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 mouth | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 mouth | cc |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 mouth | advmod |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 mouth | case |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 mouth | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 mouth | det |
| 41 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 speak | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 LORD | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 LORD | det |
| 44 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 mouth | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saith | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the LORD of hosts | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not hearken | infinitive | unto the words of the prophets | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | prophesy | present | the prophets | unto you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lead | present | prophets = prophet | you | unto vanity | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 5 | speak speech: other | present | prophets = prophet | a vision of prophets's own heart | the mouth of the LORD | tree rules | |||
| 6 | word | the prophets | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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
כֹּֽה־אָמַ֞ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֗וֹת אַֽל־תִּשְׁמְע֞וּ עַל־דִּבְרֵ֤י הַנְּבִאִים֙ הַנִּבְּאִ֣ים לָכֶ֔ם מַהְבִּלִ֥ים הֵ֖מָּה אֶתְכֶ֑ם חֲז֤וֹן לִבָּם֙ יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ לֹ֖א מִפִּ֥י יְהוָֽה׃
Jeremiah 23:16: 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:632 of Mova's parse database.
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