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title: Jeremiah 6:8 (JPS 1917) — Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Who acts: I. Jeremiah 6:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 6:8 · JPS 1917

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Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** correct, alienate, make, not inhabit · **To what, where:** thou, soul, thee, land

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This is Jeremiah 6:8 · 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), 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:176
# text = Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux:pass	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	corrected	correct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	alienated	alienate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
19	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obj	_	_
20	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | infinitive · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | Jerusalem *vocative* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **alienate** | infinitive · passive |  | My soul |  | thee |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | present | I | thee |  |  |  | desolate *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product |
| 4 | **not** **inhabit** | participle |  | a land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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הִוָּסְרִי֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם פֶּן־תֵּקַ֥ע נַפְשִׁ֖י מִמֵּ֑ךְ פֶּן־אֲשִׂימֵ֣ךְ שְׁמָמָ֔ה אֶ֖רֶץ ל֥וֹא נוֹשָֽׁבָה׃פ

[Jeremiah 6:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.8/)

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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:176` 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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