--- title: Jeremiah 48:27 (JPS 1917) — For was not Israel a derision unto thee? · tree and pragmatics description: For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Who acts: Israel. Jeremiah 48:27 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.1261/) [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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/48/) / [48:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.27/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 48:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? **Who acts:** Israel · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** derision This is Jeremiah 48:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (Israel), 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:1261 # text = For was not Israel a derision unto thee? 1 For for CCONJ IN _ 6 cc _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 4 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 derision derision NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 obl _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | past | Israel | a derision | | | | unto thee | tree rules | 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} וְאִ֣ם ׀ ל֣וֹא הַשְּׂחֹ֗ק הָיָ֤ה לְךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־בְּגַנָּבִ֖ים נִמְצָ֑א כִּֽי־מִדֵּ֧י דְבָרֶ֥יךָ בּ֖וֹ תִּתְנוֹדָֽד׃ [Jeremiah 48:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.27/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **For was not Israel a derision unto thee?** 2. [Was he found among thieves?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1262/) 3. [For as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1263/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1261` 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 48:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1260/) - next →: [Jeremiah 48:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1262/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 48:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.27/)