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title: Jeremiah 8:9 (JPS 1917) — The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken; Lo, they have… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken; Lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? Who acts: wise men, men, wisdom. Jeremiah 8:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 8:9 · JPS 1917

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The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken; Lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

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**Who acts:** wise men, men, wisdom · **What happens:** be, dismay, take, reject, word · **To what, where:** men, word, LORD

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This is Jeremiah 8:9 · 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 (wise men, men, wisdom), 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:248
# text = The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken; Lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	dismayed	dismay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	rejected	reject	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	26	det	_	_
26	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	_
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the wise men |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dismay** | present · passive |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **take** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reject** | present · perfect | men *= man* | the word of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | what wisdom |  |  |  |  | in scribes *= scribe* | tree rules |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ חֲכָמִ֔ים חַ֖תּוּ וַיִּלָּכֵ֑דוּ הִנֵּ֤ה בִדְבַר־יְהוָה֙ מָאָ֔סוּ וְחָכְמַֽת־מֶ֖ה לָהֶֽם׃ס

[Jeremiah 8:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.9/)

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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:248` 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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