--- title: Jeremiah 4:22 (JPS 1917) — For My people is foolish, they know Me not; they are sottish childre… · tree and pragmatics description: For My people is foolish, they know Me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Who acts: people. Jeremiah 4:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.124/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/4/) / [4:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.22/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 4:22 · JPS 1917 For My people is foolish, they know Me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** be, not know, have, do · **To what, where:** Me, sottish children, understanding, evil, good, knowledge This is Jeremiah 4:22 · 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 (people), 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:124 # text = For My people is foolish, they know Me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 sottish sottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 understanding understanding NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 33 good good NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | My people | | | | | foolish *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **know** | present | people | Me | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | people | sottish children | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | people | no understanding | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | people | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | evil | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | good | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | | 8 | **have** | present | people | no knowledge | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient | 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} כִּ֣י ׀ אֱוִ֣יל עַמִּ֗י אוֹתִי֙ לֹ֣א יָדָ֔עוּ בָּנִ֤ים סְכָלִים֙ הֵ֔מָּה וְלֹ֥א נְבוֹנִ֖ים הֵ֑מָּה חֲכָמִ֥ים הֵ֙מָּה֙ לְהָרַ֔ע וּלְהֵיטִ֖יב לֹ֥א יָדָֽעוּ׃ [Jeremiah 4:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:124` 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 4:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.123/) - next →: [Jeremiah 4:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.125/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 4:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.22/)