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title: Jeremiah 5:28 (JPS 1917) — They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in dee… · tree and pragmatics
description: They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. Who acts: houses, cause. Jeremiah 5:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree a
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# Jeremiah 5:28 · JPS 1917

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They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

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**Who acts:** houses, cause · **What happens:** wax, become, overpass, not plead, make, prosper · **To what, where:** deeds, cause, right, fatherless

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This is Jeremiah 5:28 · 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, cause), 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:165
# text = They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	waxen	wax	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	sleek	sleek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	overpass	overpass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	plead	plead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fatherless	fatherless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	needy	needy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wax** | present · passive | houses *= house* |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | present · passive | houses *= house* |  |  |  |  | sleek *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **overpass** | present | houses *= house* |  |  | deeds of wickedness |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **plead** *speech: request* | present | houses *= house* | the cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | might | houses *= house* | cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **prosper** | to-infinitive | cause *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **judge** | present · do-support | houses *= house* | the right of the needy |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent right=Value |
| 8 | **cause** |  |  | the fatherless |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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שָׁמְנ֣וּ עָשְׁת֗וּ גַּ֚ם עָֽבְר֣וּ דִבְרֵי־רָ֔ע דִּ֣ין לֹא־דָ֔נוּ דִּ֥ין יָת֖וֹם וְיַצְלִ֑יחוּ וּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט אֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים לֹ֥א שָׁפָֽטוּ׃

[Jeremiah 5:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.28/)

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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:165` 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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