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title: Jeremiah 4:14 (JPS 1917) — O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be sav… · tree and pragmatics
description: O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. Who acts: you. Jeremiah 4:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 4:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wash, save · **To what, where:** heart, wickedness, thou

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This is Jeremiah 4:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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:111
# text = O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy heart |  | wickedness |  | Jerusalem *vocative* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent heart=Theme from wickedness=Source |
| 2 | **save** | may · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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כַּבְּסִ֨י מֵרָעָ֤ה לִבֵּךְ֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם לְמַ֖עַן תִּוָּשֵׁ֑עִי עַד־מָתַ֛י תָּלִ֥ין בְּקִרְבֵּ֖ךְ מַחְשְׁב֥וֹת אוֹנֵֽךְ׃

[Jeremiah 4:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.14/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.**
2. [How long shall thy baleful thoughts lodge within thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.112/)

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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:111` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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