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title: Jeremiah 6:28 (JPS 1917) — They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are… · tree and pragmatics
description: They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron; they all of them deal corruptly. Who acts: people. Jeremiah 6:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 6:28 · JPS 1917

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They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron; they all of them deal corruptly.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** be, go about, deal · **To what, where:** grievous revolters, brass

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This is Jeremiah 6:28 · 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 (people), 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:199
# text = They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron; they all of them deal corruptly.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	det	_	_
4	grievous	grievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	revolters	revolter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	slanders	slander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
22	deal	deal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	corruptly	corruptly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | people | grievous revolters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go about** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with slanders; about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with slander=Instrument |
| 3 | **is a** | present | people | brass and iron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **deal** | present | people |  |  |  |  | corruptly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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כֻּלָּם֙ סָרֵ֣י סֽוֹרְרִ֔ים הֹלְכֵ֥י רָכִ֖יל נְחֹ֣שֶׁת וּבַרְזֶ֑ל כֻּלָּ֥ם מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ים הֵֽמָּה׃

[Jeremiah 6:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.28/)

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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:199` 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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