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title: Jeremiah 42:12 (JPS 1917) — And I will grant you compassion, that he may have compassion upon yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I will grant you compassion, that he may have compassion upon you, and cause you to return to your own land. Who acts: I, LORD, you. Jeremiah 42:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 42:12 · JPS 1917

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And I will grant you compassion, that he may have compassion upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

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**Who acts:** I, LORD, you · **What happens:** grant, have, cause, return · **To what, where:** compassion, you

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This is Jeremiah 42:12 · 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 (I, LORD, 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:1139
# text = And I will grant you compassion, that he may have compassion upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | future | I | compassion | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal compassion=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | may | LORD | compassion |  |  |  | upon you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your own land *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result |

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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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וְאֶתֵּ֥ן לָכֶ֛ם רַחֲמִ֖ים וְרִחַ֣ם אֶתְכֶ֑ם וְהֵשִׁ֥יב אֶתְכֶ֖ם אֶל־אַדְמַתְכֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 42:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.42.12/)

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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:1139` 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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