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title: Jeremiah 6:20 (JPS 1917) — Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me. Who acts: burnt offerings, sacrifices, Your. Jeremiah 6:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 6:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me.

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**Who acts:** burnt offerings, sacrifices, Your · **What happens:** burn, not be, be, offer, sacrifice

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This is Jeremiah 6:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (burnt offerings, sacrifices, Your), 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:191
# text = Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pleasing	pleasing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | Your burnt offerings |  |  |  |  | acceptable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | your sacrifices |  |  |  |  | unto Me | tree rules |
| 4 | **offer** |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **sacrifice** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: poss=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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לָמָּה־זֶּ֨ה לִ֤י לְבוֹנָה֙ מִשְּׁבָ֣א תָב֔וֹא וְקָנֶ֥ה הַטּ֖וֹב מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מֶרְחָ֑ק עֹלֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ לֹ֣א לְרָצ֔וֹן וְזִבְחֵיכֶ֖ם לֹא־עָ֥רְבוּ לִֽי׃ס

[Jeremiah 6:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.190/)
2. **Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me.**

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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:191` 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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