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title: Jeremiah 8:6 (JPS 1917) — I attended and listened, but they spoke not aright; no man repenteth… · tree and pragmatics
description: I attended and listened, but they spoke not aright; no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying: 'What have I done?' Every one turneth away in his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle. Who acts: I, people, man, one. Jeremiah 8:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Jeremiah 8:6 · JPS 1917

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I attended and listened, but they spoke not aright; no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying: 'What have I done?' Every one turneth away in his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.

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**Who acts:** I, people, man, one, horse · **What happens:** attend, listen, not speak, repent, say, do · **To what, where:** Jerusalem, course, battle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 8:6 · 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 (I, people, man, 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:244
# text = I attended and listened, but they spoke not aright; no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying: 'What have I done?' Every one turneth away in his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	aright	aright	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	repenteth	repent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
23	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
29	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	turneth	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	rusheth	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	headlong	headlong	ADV	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-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 | **attend** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **listen** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | past | people |  |  |  |  | aright *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **repent** | present | no man | Jerusalem |  |  |  | of Jerusalem's wickedness | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 7 | **turn away** | present | every one |  |  | Jerusalem's course |  | as a horse; away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **rush** | present | a horse |  |  | the battle |  | headlong *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in battle=Trajectory |

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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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הִקְשַׁ֤בְתִּי וָֽאֶשְׁמָע֙ לוֹא־כֵ֣ן יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ אֵ֣ין אִ֗ישׁ נִחָם֙ עַל־רָ֣עָת֔וֹ לֵאמֹ֖ר מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֑יתִי כֻּלֹּ֗ה שָׁ֚ב בִּמְר֣וּצָתָ֔ם כְּס֥וּס שׁוֹטֵ֖ף בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 8:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.6/)

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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:244` 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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