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title: Jeremiah 48:27 (JPS 1917) — For as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head. · tree and pragmatics
description: For as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head. Who acts: thou. Jeremiah 48:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 48:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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For as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** speak, wag · **To what, where:** head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 48:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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 (thou), 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:1263
# text = For as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	speakest	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	waggest	wag	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | thou |  |  |  |  | of Israel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wag** | present | thou | the head |  |  |  | often *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |

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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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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/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [For was not Israel a derision unto thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1261/)
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.**

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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:1263` 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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