--- title: Jeremiah 44:7 (JPS 1917) — Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Isra… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining; Who acts: LORD, ye. 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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 (LORD, ye), 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:1169 # text = Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining; 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 3 thus thus ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 commit commit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 20 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 22 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 against against ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 souls soul NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 34 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 infant infant NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 suckling suckling NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 out out ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 51 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 50 iobj _ _ 52 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 50 obj _ _ 53 remaining remain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 52 acl _ _ 54 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=other | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | now | therefore, thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **commit** | present | ye | this great evil | | | | against your own souls; wherefore *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Theme | | 3 | **cut off** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | man and woman and infant and suckling | | the midst of Judah | | from you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme from you=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | none | you | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme none=Attribute | | 5 | **remain** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וְעַתָּ֡ה כֹּֽה־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָה֩ אֱלֹהֵ֨י צְבָא֜וֹת אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לָמָה֩ אַתֶּ֨ם עֹשִׂ֜ים רָעָ֤ה גְדוֹלָה֙ אֶל־נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵכֶ֔ם לְהַכְרִ֨ית לָכֶ֧ם אִישׁ־וְאִשָּׁ֛ה עוֹלֵ֥ל וְיוֹנֵ֖ק מִתּ֣וֹךְ יְהוּדָ֑ה לְבִלְתִּ֛י הוֹתִ֥יר לָכֶ֖ם שְׁאֵרִֽית׃ [Jeremiah 44:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1169` 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 44:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1168/) - next →: [Jeremiah 44:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1170/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 44:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.7/)