--- title: Jeremiah 42:5 (JPS 1917) — Then they said to Jeremiah: 'The LORD be a true and faithful witness… · tree and pragmatics description: Then they said to Jeremiah: 'The LORD be a true and faithful witness against us, if we do not even according to all the word wherewith the LORD thy God shall send thee to us. Who acts: way, LORD. 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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 (way, LORD), 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:1132 # text = Then they said to Jeremiah: 'The LORD be a true and faithful witness against us, if we do not even according to all the word wherewith the LORD thy God shall send thee to us. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Jeremiah Jeremiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 8 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 16 against against ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 24 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|VerbForm=Ger 28 case _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 28 det:predet _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 29 wherewith wherewith ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ _ 36 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=express | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | way | | Jeremiah | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jeremiah=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | infinitive | the LORD | a true witness | | | | against us | tree rules | | 3 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **send** | shall | the LORD | thee | us | | | wherewith *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to we=Destination | 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} וְהֵ֙מָּה֙ אָמְר֣וּ אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֔הוּ יְהִ֤י יְהוָה֙ בָּ֔נוּ לְעֵ֖ד אֱמֶ֣ת וְנֶאֱמָ֑ן אִם־לֹ֡א כְּֽכָל־הַ֠דָּבָר אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִֽשְׁלָחֲךָ֜ יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ אֵלֵ֖ינוּ כֵּ֥ן נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃ [Jeremiah 42:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.42.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1132` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 42:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1131/) - next →: [Jeremiah 42:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1133/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 42:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.42.5/)