--- title: Jeremiah 5:3 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth? · tree and pragmatics description: O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth? Jeremiah 5:3 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.137/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/5/) / [5:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.3/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 5:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth? **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** eyes This is Jeremiah 5:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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: 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:137 # text = O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth? 1 O o INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 2 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 Thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | | Thine eyes | | | | upon truth; LORD *vocative* | 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} יְהֹוָ֗ה עֵינֶיךָ֮ הֲל֣וֹא לֶאֱמוּנָה֒ הִכִּ֤יתָה אֹתָם֙ וְֽלֹא־חָ֔לוּ כִּלִּיתָ֕ם מֵאֲנ֖וּ קַ֣חַת מוּסָ֑ר חִזְּק֤וּ פְנֵיהֶם֙ מִסֶּ֔לַע מֵאֲנ֖וּ לָשֽׁוּב׃ [Jeremiah 5:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.3/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth?** 2. [Thou hast stricken them, but they were not affected; Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.138/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:137` 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 5:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.136/) - next →: [Jeremiah 5:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.138/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 5:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.3/)