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title: Jeremiah 45:5 (JPS 1917) — And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not; for, behol… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 45:5 · JPS 1917

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And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.'

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**Who acts:** thou, I, LORD · **What happens:** seek, not seek, bring, say, give, go · **To what, where:** great things, things, evil, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 45:5 · 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 (thou, I, 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:1197
# text = And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	seekest	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	2	obl	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
9	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
20	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	obl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
42	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
44	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	45	nsubj	_	_
45	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=request, indirect=1, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present | thou | great things |  |  |  | for thyself | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Location for thyself=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **seek** | infinitive |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | future | I | evil |  |  |  | upon all flesh | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** | future | I | thy life |  |  |  | unto thee; for a prey in all places | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Theme for prey=Asset |
| 6 | **go** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְאַתָּ֛ה תְּבַקֶּשׁ־לְךָ֥ גְדֹל֖וֹת אַל־תְּבַקֵּ֑שׁ כִּ֡י הִנְנִי֩ מֵבִ֨יא רָעָ֤ה עַל־כָּל־בָּשָׂר֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה וְנָתַתִּ֨י לְךָ֤ אֶֽת־נַפְשְׁךָ֙ לְשָׁלָ֔ל עַ֥ל כָּל־הַמְּקֹמ֖וֹת אֲשֶׁ֥ר תֵּֽלֶךְ־שָֽׁם׃ס

[Jeremiah 45:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.45.5/)

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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:1197` of Mova's parse database.

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