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title: Jeremiah 42:13 (JPS 1917) — But if ye say: We will not abide in this land; so that ye hearken no… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if ye say: We will not abide in this land; so that ye hearken not to the voice of the LORD your God; Who acts: ye, We. Jeremiah 42:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 42:13 · JPS 1917

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But if ye say: We will not abide in this land; so that ye hearken not to the voice of the LORD your God;

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**Who acts:** ye, We · **What happens:** say, not abide, not hearken · **To what, where:** land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 42:13 · 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 (ye, We), 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:1140
# text = But if ye say: We will not abide in this land; so that ye hearken not to the voice of the LORD your God;
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hearken	hearken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **abide** | future | We |  |  | this land |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **hearken** | present | ye |  |  |  |  | to the voice of the LORD | tree rules |

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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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וְאִם־אֹמְרִ֣ים אַתֶּ֔ם לֹ֥א נֵשֵׁ֖ב בָּאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את לְבִלְתִּ֣י שְׁמֹ֔עַ בְּק֖וֹל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 42:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.42.13/)

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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:1140` 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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