Jeremiah 27:17 · JPS 1917
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefore should this city become desolate?
Who acts: you, city · What happens: not hearken, serve, live, become · To what, where: king
This is Jeremiah 27:17 · 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, city), 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 | Hearken | hearken | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Hearken | advmod |
| 3 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hearken | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 serve | punct |
| 6 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hearken | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 serve | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Babylon | case |
| 10 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 live | cc |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 serve | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 become | punct |
| 15 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 become | advmod |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 become | aux |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 become | nsubj |
| 19 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hearken | parataxis |
| 20 | desolate | desolate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 become | xcomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearken | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hearken | imperative | you not said here | unto prophets = prophet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | serve | infinitive | the king of Babylon | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | live | infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | become | should | this city | desolate, wherefore property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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
אַל־תִּשְׁמְע֣וּ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם עִבְד֥וּ אֶת־מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל וִֽחְי֑וּ לָ֧מָּה תִֽהְיֶ֛ה הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את חָרְבָּֽה׃
Jeremiah 27:17: 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:753 of Mova's parse database.
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