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title: Jeremiah 7:6 (JPS 1917) — if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt; Who acts: ye, you, your. Jeremiah 7:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 7:6 · JPS 1917

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if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;

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**Who acts:** ye, you, your · **What happens:** not oppress, not shed, walk, hurt · **To what, where:** stranger, innocent blood, place

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This is Jeremiah 7:6 · 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 (ye, you, 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:207
# text = if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;
1	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	oppress	oppress	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fatherless	fatherless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	shed	shed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
24	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
25	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **oppress** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye | the stranger and the fatherless and the widow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **shed** | present | ye *not said here* | innocent blood |  | this place |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source |
| 3 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after other gods | to your hurt *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hurt=Result |
| 4 | **hurt** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom hurt «state intransitive»: 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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גֵּ֣ר יָת֤וֹם וְאַלְמָנָה֙ לֹ֣א תַֽעֲשֹׁ֔קוּ וְדָ֣ם נָקִ֔י אַֽל־תִּשְׁפְּכ֖וּ בַּמָּק֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וְאַחֲרֵ֨י אֱלֹהִ֧ים אֲחֵרִ֛ים לֹ֥א תֵלְכ֖וּ לְרַ֥ע לָכֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 7:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.6/)

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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:207` 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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