Jeremiah 23:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
What hath the straw to do with the wheat? saith the LORD.
Who acts: straw, LORD · What happens: have, do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 23:28 · 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 (straw, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 2 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saith | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 straw | det |
| 4 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hath | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hath | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wheat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wheat | det |
| 9 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 hath | punct |
| 11 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 LORD | det |
| 13 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saith | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saith | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the straw | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the straw not said here | with the wheat | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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
הַנָּבִ֞יא אֲשֶׁר־אִתּ֤וֹ חֲלוֹם֙ יְסַפֵּ֣ר חֲל֔וֹם וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר דְּבָרִי֙ אִתּ֔וֹ יְדַבֵּ֥ר דְּבָרִ֖י אֱמֶ֑ת מַה־לַתֶּ֥בֶן אֶת־הַבָּ֖ר נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃
Jeremiah 23:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath My word; let him speak My word faithfully.
- What hath the straw to do with the wheat? saith the LORD.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:648 of Mova's parse database.
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