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title: Jeremiah 6:17 (JPS 1917) — And I set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the horn', but… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the horn', but they said: 'We will not attend.' Who acts: I, watchmen, We. Jeremiah 6:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 6:17 · JPS 1917

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And I set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the horn', but they said: 'We will not attend.'

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**Who acts:** I, watchmen, We · **What happens:** set, attend, say, not attend · **To what, where:** watchmen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 6:17 · 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, watchmen, We), 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:187
# text = And I set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the horn', but they said: 'We will not attend.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
22	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | I | watchmen |  |  |  | over you | tree rules |
| 2 | **attend** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the sound of the horn | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to sound=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | watchmen *= watchman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **attend** | future | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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וַהֲקִמֹתִ֤י עֲלֵיכֶם֙ צֹפִ֔ים הַקְשִׁ֖יבוּ לְק֣וֹל שׁוֹפָ֑ר וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹ֥א נַקְשִֽׁיב׃

[Jeremiah 6:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.17/)

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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:187` 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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