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title: Jeremiah 7:16 (JPS 1917) — Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor pra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me; for I will not hear thee. Who acts: thou, I. Jeremiah 7:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 7:16 · JPS 1917

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Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me; for I will not hear thee.

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**Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** not pray, lift up, make, not hear · **To what, where:** cry, intercession, Me, thee

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This is Jeremiah 7:16 · 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 (thou, I), 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:218
# text = Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me; for I will not hear thee.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc:preconj	_	_
10	lift	lift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	intercession	intercession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pray** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | for this people; therefore *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for people=Theme |
| 2 | **lift up** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | cry nor prayer |  |  |  | for cry | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cry=Theme for they=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | intercession | Me |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset intercession=Product |
| 4 | **not** **hear** | future | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |

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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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וְאַתָּ֞ה אַל־תִּתְפַּלֵּ֣ל ׀ בְּעַד־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֗ה וְאַל־תִּשָּׂ֧א בַעֲדָ֛ם רִנָּ֥ה וּתְפִלָּ֖ה וְאַל־תִּפְגַּע־בִּ֑י כִּי־אֵינֶ֥נִּי שֹׁמֵ֖עַ אֹתָֽךְ׃

[Jeremiah 7:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.16/)

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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:218` 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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