Not able to create "tweets_raw"

hive> Create Table CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE tweets_raw () ROW FORMAT SERDE ‘org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe’ LOCATION ‘/user/sandu10113581/senti/upload/data/tweets_raw’ > ;

    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser_IdentifiersParser.identifier(HiveParser_IdentifiersParser.java:11699)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.identifier(HiveParser.java:49892)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser_FromClauseParser.tableName(HiveParser_FromClauseParser.java:5008)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.tableName(HiveParser.java:49931)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.createTableStatement(HiveParser.java:6541)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.ddlStatement(HiveParser.java:4122)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.execStatement(HiveParser.java:1786)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:1152)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:211)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:171)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:447)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:330)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1233)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1274)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1170)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1160)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:217)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:169)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:380)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:740)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:685)        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:625)        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:233)        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148)FAILED: ParseException line 1:13 Failed to recognize predicate 'CREATE'. Failed rule: 'identifier' in table name

What are those “()” for just after the table name?
Shouldn’t there me a list of columns and their data types?