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title: Jeremiah 5:24 (JPS 1917) — Neither say they in their heart: 'Let us now fear the LORD our God,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither say they in their heart: 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth the former rain, and the latter in due season; that keepeth for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.' Who acts: people, us, LORD, that. Jeremiah 5:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Jeremiah 5:24 · JPS 1917

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Neither say they in their heart: 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth the former rain, and the latter in due season; that keepeth for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'

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**Who acts:** people, us, LORD, that · **What happens:** say, let, fear, give, keep, appoint · **To what, where:** heart, us, LORD, former rain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 5:24 · 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 (people, us, LORD, 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:161
# text = Neither say they in their heart: 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth the former rain, and the latter in due season; that keepeth for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'
1	Neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	2	cc	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	keepeth	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people |  |  | people's heart |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fear** | infinitive | us *not said here* | the LORD |  |  | now |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | present | the LORD | the former rain |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | present | that |  |  |  | week | for us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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וְלֹֽא־אָמְר֣וּ בִלְבָבָ֗ם נִ֤ירָא נָא֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ הַנֹּתֵ֗ן גֶּ֛שֶׁם יוֹרֶ֥ה וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁ בְּעִתּ֑וֹ שְׁבֻע֛וֹת חֻקּ֥וֹת קָצִ֖יר יִשְׁמָר־לָֽנוּ׃

[Jeremiah 5:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.24/)

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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:161` 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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