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title: Jeremiah 5:21 (JPS 1917) — Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, that hav… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 5:21 · JPS 1917

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Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, that have eyes, and see not, that have ears, and hear not:

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**Who acts:** you, foolish people, that · **What happens:** hear, have, not see, not hear · **To what, where:** this, eyes, ears

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This is Jeremiah 5:21 · 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 (you, foolish people, that), 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:157
# text = Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, that have eyes, and see not, that have ears, and hear not:
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | this |  |  | now | foolish people and understanding *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | foolish people and understanding | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **see** | present | foolish people and understanding *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | present | that | ears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **hear** | present | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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שִׁמְעוּ־נָ֣א זֹ֔את עַ֥ם סָכָ֖ל וְאֵ֣ין לֵ֑ב עֵינַ֤יִם לָהֶם֙ וְלֹ֣א יִרְא֔וּ אָזְנַ֥יִם לָהֶ֖ם וְלֹ֥א יִשְׁמָֽעוּ׃

[Jeremiah 5:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.21/)

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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:157` of Mova's parse database.

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