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title: Jeremiah 1:16 (JPS 1917) — And I will utter My judgments against them touching all their wicked… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I will utter My judgments against them touching all their wickedness; in that they have forsaken me, and have offered unto other gods, and worshipped the work of their own hands. Who acts: I, judgments, My, own hands. Jeremiah 1:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Jeremiah 1:16 · JPS 1917

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And I will utter My judgments against them touching all their wickedness; in that they have forsaken me, and have offered unto other gods, and worshipped the work of their own hands.

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**Who acts:** I, judgments, My, own hands · **What happens:** utter, touch, forsake, offer, worship, judge · **To what, where:** judgments, wickedness, me, work

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This is Jeremiah 1:16 · 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 (I, judgments, My, own hands), 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:15
# text = And I will utter My judgments against them touching all their wickedness; in that they have forsaken me, and have offered unto other gods, and worshipped the work of their own hands.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	judgments	judgment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	worshipped	worship	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **utter** *speech: other* | future | I | My judgments |  |  |  | against judgments *= judgment* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent judgment=Topic |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund | I *not said here* | judgments's wickedness |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wickedness=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **forsake** | present · perfect | judgments *= judgment* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **offer** | present · perfect | judgments *= judgment* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto other gods | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **worship** | past | judgments *= judgment* *not said here* | the work of judgments's own hands |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus |
| 6 | **judge** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **work** |  | judgments's own hands |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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וְדִבַּרְתִּ֤י מִשְׁפָּטַי֙ אוֹתָ֔ם עַ֖ל כָּל־רָעָתָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר עֲזָב֗וּנִי וַֽיְקַטְּרוּ֙ לֵאלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲו֖וּ לְמַעֲשֵׂ֥י יְדֵיהֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 1:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.1.16/)

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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:15` of Mova's parse database.

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