--- title: Jeremiah 12:1 — Right wouldest Thou be, O LORD, were I to contend with Thee, yet wil… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Right wouldest Thou be, O LORD, were I to contend with Thee, yet will I reason with Thee: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they secure that deal very treacherously? Who acts: I, way. 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The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — I, way — and what happens in the verse to all, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 52 chapters of Jeremiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. צַדִּ֤יק אַתָּה֙ יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֥י אָרִ֖יב אֵלֶ֑יךָ אַ֤ךְ מִשְׁפָּטִים֙ אֲדַבֵּ֣ר אוֹתָ֔ךְ מַדּ֗וּעַ דֶּ֤רֶךְ רְשָׁעִים֙ צָלֵ֔חָה שָׁל֖וּ כָּל־בֹּ֥גְדֵי בָֽגֶד׃ [Right wouldest Thou be, O LORD, were I to contend with Thee, yet will I reason with Thee: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.349/) [Wherefore are all they secure that deal very treacherously?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.350/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:JER:302 # text = צַדִּ֤יק אַתָּה֙ יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֥י אָרִ֖יב אֵלֶ֑יךָ אַ֤ךְ מִשְׁפָּטִים֙ אֲדַבֵּ֣ר אוֹתָ֔ךְ מַדּ֗וּעַ דֶּ֤רֶךְ רְשָׁעִים֙ צָלֵ֔חָה שָׁל֖וּ כָּל־בֹּ֥גְדֵי בָֽגֶד׃ # verse = JER.12.1 1 צַדִּ֤יק צַדִּיק ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[are].righteous|Ref=JER_12:1!1|MId=o240120010011|Strong=6662|Type=adjective 2 אַתָּה֙ אַתָּה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ Gloss=you|Ref=JER_12:1!2|MId=o240120010021|Strong=0859|Type=personal 3 יְהוָ֔ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 1 parataxis _ Gloss=O.Yahweh|Ref=JER_12:1!3|MId=o240120010031|Strong=3068 4 כִּ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 5 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=JER_12:1!4|MId=o240120010041|Strong=3588 5 אָרִ֖יב רִיב VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 1 advcl _ Gloss=I.bring.a.case|Ref=JER_12:1!5|MId=o240120010051|Strong=7378|Frame=A0:240110010051;|Type=yiqtol 6-7 אֵלֶ֑יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 אֵלֶ֑י אֶל ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JER_12:1!6|MId=o240120010061|Strong=0413 7 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=JER_12:1!6|MId=o240120010062|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 8 אַ֤ךְ אַךְ ADV _ _ 9 advmod _ Gloss=nevertheless|Ref=JER_12:1!7|MId=o240120010071|Strong=0389|Type=affirmation 9 מִשְׁפָּטִים֙ מִשְׁפָּט NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 10 obj _ Gloss=judgments|Ref=JER_12:1!8|MId=o240120010081|Strong=4941 10 אֲדַבֵּ֣ר דָבַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=1 1 parataxis _ Gloss=I.will.speak|Ref=JER_12:1!9|MId=o240120010091|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:240110010051;A1:240120010081;|Type=yiqtol 11-12 אוֹתָ֔ךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 אוֹת אֵת ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=JER_12:1!10|MId=o240120010101|Strong=0854|Type=direct_object_marker 12 ָ֔ךְ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=JER_12:1!10|MId=o240120010102|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 13 מַדּ֗וּעַ מַדּוּעַ ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=why?|Ref=JER_12:1!11|MId=o240120010111|Strong=4069|Type=interrogative 14 דֶּ֤רֶךְ דֶּרֶךְ NOUN _ Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].way|Ref=JER_12:1!12|MId=o240120010121|Strong=1870 15 רְשָׁעִים֙ רָשָׁע ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 14 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.wicked.[people]|Ref=JER_12:1!13|MId=o240120010131|Strong=7563|Type=adjective 16 צָלֵ֔חָה צָלֵחַ VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 ccomp _ Gloss=does.it.prosper|Ref=JER_12:1!14|MId=o240120010141|Strong=6743|Frame=A0:240120010121;|Type=qatal 17 שָׁל֖וּ שָׁלָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 16 parataxis _ Gloss=are.they.at.ease?|Ref=JER_12:1!15|MId=o240120010151|Strong=7951|Frame=A0:240120010171;|Type=qatal 18 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Gloss=all|Ref=JER_12:1!16|MId=o240120010161|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 19 בֹּ֥גְדֵי בָּגַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=[those.who].act.treacherously|Ref=JER_12:1!17|MId=o240120010171|Strong=0898|Frame=A1:240120010181;|Type=participle_active 20 בָֽגֶד בֶּגֶד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.treachery|Ref=JER_12:1!18|MId=o240120010181|Strong=0898a|SpaceAfter=No 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=JER_12:1!18 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אָרִיב *I bring a case* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | אֲדַבֵּר *I will speak* | yiqtol · piel | | מִשְׁפָּטִים *judgments* | | | | צָלֵחָה *does it prosper* | qatal · qal | דֶּרֶךְ *\[the\] way* | | | | | שָׁלוּ *are they at ease?* | qatal · qal | בֹּגְדֵי *\[those who\] act treacherously* | | | | | בֹּגְדֵי *\[those who\] act treacherously* | participle active · qal | | בָֽגֶד *of treachery* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos} זַכַּאי אַתְּ יְיָ מִלְמֵידַן לָקֳבֵל פִּתְגָמָךְ בְּרַם שְׁאֵילַת דִינִין אֲנָא שָׁאֵיל מִן קֳדָמָךְ מַה דֵין אוֹרְחַת רַשִׁיעַיָא מַצְלְחָא שְׁלַן שְׁלֵיוָא כָּל מְשַׁקְרֵי שְׁקָר: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [Right wouldest Thou be, O LORD, were I to contend with Thee, yet will I reason with Thee: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.349/) 2. [Wherefore are all they secure that deal very treacherously?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.350/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). Hebrew sentence `wlc:JER:302`. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 11:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.11.23/) - next →: [Jeremiah 12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.2/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/12/)