--- title: Jeremiah 5:12 (JPS 1917) — They have belied the LORD, and said: 'It is not He, neither shall ev… · tree and pragmatics description: They have belied the LORD, and said: 'It is not He, neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine; Who acts: houses, end, evil, we. Jeremiah 5:12 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.148/) [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/) / [5:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.12/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 5:12 · JPS 1917 They have belied the LORD, and said: 'It is not He, neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine; **Who acts:** houses, end, evil, we · **What happens:** belie, say, not be, come, see · **To what, where:** LORD, sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Jeremiah 5:12 · 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 (houses, end, evil, we), 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:148 # text = They have belied the LORD, and said: 'It is not He, neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine; 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 belied belie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 11 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 ccomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 19 cc _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD _ 19 aux _ _ 18 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 26 cc _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD _ 26 aux _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 27 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 29 cc _ _ 29 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **belie** | present · perfect | houses *= house* | the LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | houses *= house* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | end | LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | shall | evil | | | | | upon us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Location | | 5 | **see** | shall | we | sword nor famine | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus | 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} כִּֽחֲשׁוּ֙ בַּיהוָ֔ה וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹא־ה֑וּא וְלֹא־תָב֤וֹא עָלֵ֙ינוּ֙ רָעָ֔ה וְחֶ֥רֶב וְרָעָ֖ב ל֥וֹא נִרְאֶֽה׃ [Jeremiah 5:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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