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title: Jeremiah 7:19 (JPS 1917) — Do they provoke Me? saith the LORD; do they not provoke themselves,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Do they provoke Me? saith the LORD; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces? Who acts: fathers, LORD. Jeremiah 7:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 7:19 · JPS 1917

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Do they provoke Me? saith the LORD; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

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**Who acts:** fathers, LORD · **What happens:** provoke, say, not provoke, confuse · **To what, where:** Me, fathers, own faces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 7:19 · 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 (fathers, LORD), 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:221
# text = Do they provoke Me? saith the LORD; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	provoke	provoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
6	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	provoke	provoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **provoke** | present · do-support | fathers *= father* | Me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **provoke** | present · do-support | fathers *= father* | fathers *= father* |  |  |  | to the confusion of fathers's own faces | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 4 | **confuse** |  |  | fathers's own faces |  |  |  |  | nom confusion «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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הַאֹתִ֛י הֵ֥ם מַכְעִסִ֖ים נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה הֲל֣וֹא אֹתָ֔ם לְמַ֖עַן בֹּ֥שֶׁת פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃ס

[Jeremiah 7:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.19/)

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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:221` 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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