Jeremiah 23:29 · JPS 1917
Is not My word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Who acts: LORD, hammer · What happens: not be, say, break · To what, where: word, rock, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 23:29 · 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, hammer), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 word | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 word | advmod |
| 3 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 word | nmod:poss |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
| 9 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 word | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 LORD | det |
| 11 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saith | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hammer | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hammer | cc |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 hammer | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hammer | det |
| 16 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 breaketh | nsubj |
| 18 | breaketh | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hammer | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rock | det |
| 20 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breaketh | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pieces | case |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 breaketh | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=ask, indirect=1, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | My word and a hammer | like fire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the LORD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | break | present | a hammer | the rock | pieces | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=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
הֲל֨וֹא כֹ֧ה דְבָרִ֛י כָּאֵ֖שׁ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וּכְפַטִּ֖ישׁ יְפֹ֥צֵֽץ סָֽלַע׃ס
Jeremiah 23:29: 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:649 of Mova's parse database.
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