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title: Jeremiah 10:9 (JPS 1917) — Silver beaten into plates which is brought from Tarshish, and gold f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Silver beaten into plates which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple is their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men. Who acts: Silver, blue, craftsman. Jeremiah 10:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree a
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# Jeremiah 10:9 · JPS 1917

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Silver beaten into plates which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple is their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men.

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**Who acts:** Silver, blue, craftsman · **What happens:** beat, bring, be, work · **To what, where:** plates, Tarshish, clothing, work

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This is Jeremiah 10:9 · 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 (Silver, blue, craftsman), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JER:307
# text = Silver beaten into plates which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple is their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men.
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Tarshish	Tarshish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Uphaz	Uphaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	craftsman	craftsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
29	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | participle | Silver and gold from Uphaz |  |  |  |  | into plates | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V PP ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient into plate=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **bring** | present · passive |  | plates |  | Tarshish |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from tarshish=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | blue | silver's clothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | silver | all work |  |  |  | of skilful men | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** |  | the craftsman and the hands of the goldsmith |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 {#hebrew}

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כֶּ֣סֶף מְרֻקָּ֞ע מִתַּרְשִׁ֣ישׁ יוּבָ֗א וְזָהָב֙ מֵֽאוּפָ֔ז מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה חָרָ֖שׁ וִידֵ֣י צוֹרֵ֑ף תְּכֵ֤לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָן֙ לְבוּשָׁ֔ם מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה חֲכָמִ֖ים כֻּלָּֽם׃

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:307` of Mova's parse database.

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