Jeremiah 29:17 · JPS 1917
thus saith the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.
Who acts: LORD, I, sword · What happens: say, send, make, not eat, be · To what, where: sword, vile figs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Jeremiah 29:17 · 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 (LORD, I, sword), 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 | _ | 12 send | punct |
| 8 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 12 send | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Behold | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 send | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 send | aux |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saith | ccomp |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 send | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sword | det |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 famine | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 famine | det |
| 19 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sword | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pestilence | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pestilence | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pestilence | det |
| 23 | pestilence | pestilence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sword | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 make | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 make | cc |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 make | aux |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 send | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 make | obj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 figs | case |
| 30 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 figs | amod |
| 31 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 make | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 eaten | punct |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 eaten | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 eaten | advmod |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 eaten | aux:pass |
| 37 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 figs | acl:relcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 bad | punct |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 bad | nsubj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 bad | cop |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 bad | advmod |
| 42 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saith | parataxis |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saith | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | 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 | send | future | I | the sword and the famine and the pestilence | upon hosts = host | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | future | I not said here | sword | like vile figs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 4 | not eat | can · passive | vile figs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | present | sword | bad property | tree rules |
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
כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת הִנְנִי֙ מְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ בָּ֔ם אֶת־הַחֶ֖רֶב אֶת־הָרָעָ֣ב וְאֶת־הַדָּ֑בֶר וְנָתַתִּ֣י אוֹתָ֗ם כַּתְּאֵנִים֙ הַשֹּׁ֣עָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־תֵאָכַ֖לְנָה מֵרֹֽעַ׃
Jeremiah 29:17: 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:792 of Mova's parse database.
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