--- title: Jeremiah 7:9 (JPS 1917) — Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and o… · tree and pragmatics description: Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye have not known, Who acts: ye. Jeremiah 7:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.210/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/7/) / [7:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.9/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 7:9 · JPS 1917 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye have not known, **Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** steal, murder, commit, swear, offer, walk · **To what, where:** adultery, other gods This is Jeremiah 7:9 · 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), 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:210 # text = Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye have not known, 1 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 murder murder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 commit commit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 adultery adultery NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 swear swear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 falsely falsely ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 17 unto unto ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Baal Baal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 26 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nsubj _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, voice=character, polarity=neg, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | future | ye | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **murder** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **commit** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | adultery | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=Theme | | 4 | **swear** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | falsely *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **offer** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | unto Baal | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **walk** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | after other gods | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **know** | present · perfect | ye | other gods | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | 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} הֲגָנֹ֤ב ׀ רָצֹ֙חַ֙ וְֽנָאֹ֔ףוְהִשָּׁבֵ֥עַ לַשֶּׁ֖קֶר וְקַטֵּ֣ר לַבָּ֑עַל וְהָלֹ֗ךְ אַחֲרֵ֛י אֱלֹהִ֥ים אֲחֵרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יְדַעְתֶּֽם׃ [Jeremiah 7:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:210` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 7:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.209/) - next →: [Jeremiah 7:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.211/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 7:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.9/)