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title: Jeremiah 8:5 (JPS 1917) — Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual bac… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 8:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?

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**Who acts:** perpetual backsliding · **What happens:** slidden back · **To what, where:** people

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This is Jeremiah 8:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (perpetual backsliding), 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:242
# text = Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	slidden	slidden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	perpetual	perpetual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	backsliding	backslide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slidden back** | present · passive | a perpetual backsliding | this people of Jerusalem |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

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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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מַדּ֨וּעַ שׁוֹבְבָ֜ה הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֛ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם מְשֻׁבָ֣ה נִצַּ֑חַת הֶחֱזִ֙יקוּ֙ בַּתַּרְמִ֔ית מֵאֲנ֖וּ לָשֽׁוּב׃

[Jeremiah 8:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?**
2. [They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.243/)

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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:242` 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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