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title: Jeremiah 44:5 (JPS 1917) — But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to forbear offering unto other gods. Who acts: servants. Jeremiah 44:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 44:5 · JPS 1917

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But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to forbear offering unto other gods.

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**Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** not hearken, incline, turn, forbear, offer · **To what, where:** ear, wickedness

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This is Jeremiah 44:5 · 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 (servants), 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:1167
# text = But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to forbear offering unto other gods.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hearkened	hearken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
7	inclined	incline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	forbear	forbear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **hearken** | past | servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **incline** | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | servants's ear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive | servants *= servant* *not said here* |  |  | servants's wickedness |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from wickedness=Trajectory |
| 4 | **forbear** | to-infinitive | servants *= servant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **offer** | gerund | servants *= servant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto other gods | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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וְלֹ֤א שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ וְלֹא־הִטּ֣וּ אֶת־אָזְנָ֔ם לָשׁ֖וּב מֵרָֽעָתָ֑ם לְבִלְתִּ֥י קַטֵּ֖ר לֵאלֹהִ֥ים אֲחֵרִֽים׃

[Jeremiah 44:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.5/)

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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:1167` 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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