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title: Jeremiah 7:18 (JPS 1917) — The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the w… · tree and pragmatics
description: The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me. Who acts: children, fathers, women. Jeremiah 7:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Jeremiah 7:18 · JPS 1917

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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me.

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**Who acts:** children, fathers, women · **What happens:** gather, kindle, knead, make, pour out, provoke · **To what, where:** wood, fire, dough, cakes, drink offerings, Me

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This is Jeremiah 7:18 · 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 (children, fathers, women), 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:220
# text = The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kindle	kindle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knead	knead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
36	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	provoke	provoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
44	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **gather** | present | the children | wood |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 2 | **kindle** | present | the fathers | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient |
| 3 | **knead** | present | the women | the dough |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent dough=Material |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | the women *not said here* | cakes |  |  |  | to the queen of heaven | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product |
| 5 | **pour out** | to-infinitive | the women *not said here* | drink offerings |  |  |  | unto other gods | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Patient |
| 6 | **provoke** | may | women *= woman* | Me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |

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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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הַבָּנִ֞ים מְלַקְּטִ֣ים עֵצִ֗ים וְהָֽאָבוֹת֙ מְבַעֲרִ֣ים אֶת־הָאֵ֔שׁ וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים לָשׁ֣וֹת בָּצֵ֑ק לַעֲשׂ֨וֹת כַּוָּנִ֜ים לִמְלֶ֣כֶת הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וְהַסֵּ֤ךְ נְסָכִים֙ לֵאלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים לְמַ֖עַן הַכְעִסֵֽנִי׃

[Jeremiah 7:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.18/)

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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:220` of Mova's parse database.

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