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title: Jeremiah 4:4 (JPS 1917) — Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of yo… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 4:4 · JPS 1917

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Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest My fury go forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

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**Who acts:** you, fury, none, My · **What happens:** circumcise, take away, go, burn, quench, infuriate · **To what, where:** yourselves, foreskins, fury

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This is Jeremiah 4:4 · 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, fury, none, My), 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:101
# text = Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest My fury go forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
1	Circumcise	circumcise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	foreskins	foreskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	det	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	vocative	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
29	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	38	nsubj	_	_
37	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	quench	quench	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	44	case	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **circumcise** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourselves |  |  |  | to the LORD | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yourselves=Patient |
| 2 | **take away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the foreskins of your heart |  |  |  | ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem *vocative* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foreskin=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | My fury |  |  |  |  | like fire; forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **burn** | infinitive | My fury *not said here* |  |  |  |  | because the evil of your doings | tree rules |
| 5 | **quench** | can | none | fury |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 6 | **infuriate** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=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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הִמֹּ֣לוּ לַיהֹוָ֗ה וְהָסִ֙רוּ֙ עָרְל֣וֹת לְבַבְכֶ֔ם אִ֥ישׁ יְהוּדָ֖ה וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם פֶּן־תֵּצֵ֨א כָאֵ֜שׁ חֲמָתִ֗י וּבָעֲרָה֙ וְאֵ֣ין מְכַבֶּ֔ה מִפְּנֵ֖י רֹ֥עַ מַעַלְלֵיכֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 4:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.4/)

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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:101` of Mova's parse database.

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