--- title: Jeremiah 8:4 (JPS 1917) — Doth one turn away, and not return? · tree and pragmatics description: Doth one turn away, and not return? Who acts: one. Jeremiah 8:4 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.241/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/8/) / [8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.4/) / JPS 2 # Jeremiah 8:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Doth one turn away, and not return? **Who acts:** one · **What happens:** turn away, not return This is Jeremiah 8:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (one), 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:241 # text = Doth one turn away, and not return? 1 Doth do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn away** | present · do-support | one | | | | | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **return** | infinitive | one *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הֲיִפְּל֖וּ וְלֹ֣א יָק֑וּמוּ אִם־יָשׁ֖וּב וְלֹ֥א יָשֽׁוּב׃ [Jeremiah 8:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.4/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Moreover thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD: Do men fall, and not rise up again?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.240/) 2. **Doth one turn away, and not return?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:241` 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 8:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.240/) - next →: [Jeremiah 8:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.242/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.4/)